Booker Prize
Bad bets by the Booker
In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
What do literary prizes tell us about publishing in 2021?
The implications of identity politics on literary trends
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
Finely-turned tales of mothers, murder and love
We need a system where books that publishers really love, where it’s not mere puff, get a special sticker on the front, says John Self
Error has no honorary positions
What the Booker binning Emma Nicholson means for the public square
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
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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
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide