Books
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Murders for June
Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
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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
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic