Books
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
Read for pleasure
Against the functionalist approach to literature
The truth about book reviewing
What does it mean to be critical?
Publishing needs JK Rowling to be a monster
The facts are irrelevant
Murders for September
Past and future killings
Why do we like Larkin so much?
On a love with limits
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Wartime hallelujah
Creativity amid conflict
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
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
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better