Barbara Pym
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common