Books
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Sissy porn and trans dirty laundry
Louise Perry reviews Females by Andrea Long Chu
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
Cyber court
Soon, technology will mean the judge and the parties in a legal action can file claims and evidence online
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
