Books
Celebrity crime novelists: the latest literary fashion
Crime and thriller titles have replaced Strictly Come Dancing as the new craze for celebrities
Woke identity politics and the corporatist agenda
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to Oliver Wiseman about the undemocratic nature of corporate woke identity politics
The millennial bibliophile
Too many books, too little space and the insecurity of renting
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
Strap In, or Strap On?
Why is Prince Harry publishing a memoir?
Publish — or be damned
There’s no wonder that books are becoming more conformist when freedom of expression is being curtailed
Burning the books
Should writers be allowed to destroy their own work?
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
Faustian bargains of the review world
Jeremy Black delves into a history book which disappoints and a biography not to be missed
Feminist fallacies: Women shouldn’t hate men
Women would be fools not to hate those who abuse us
Should the COI make a return?
How government communications are in serious need of a reboot
Total dummies
Reinforcing messages about what makes a “real” boy or girl has no place in schools
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?
Confronting or managing decolonisation?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s military campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s
Can the power of information be controlled?
The internet democratised speech but with the new Online Safety Bill, politicians and the media are trying to put the genie back in the bottle
Brammar time
Just like Brexit, the BBC’s mishandling of Jess Brammar will hasten their demise
Gaslighting London
Westminster City’s plan to replace London’s gaslit routes
Courts shouldn’t ban clinical treatments
This is a win for common sense, not the trans lobby
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism