Bad Books
Read for pleasure
Against the functionalist approach to literature
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
