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Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
Fundamentally ahistorical
History is not just a data set for the present
Are we really “post-literate” now?
Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines, but better books need publicity
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe