Books
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
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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
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project