Bookshops
Let’s start a new chapter for independent bookshops
We must do more to protect businesses that are not just essential for readers but for local communities
The lie of trans “murders”
Children love fairy stories, but reframing thieves and alleged sexual deviants as those fairies is grotesque
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Bookshop serendipity
A bibliophile carries books like memories
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
Vanishing worlds
Round-up: what do these books tell us about literary culture in 2021?
Don’t judge a bookshop by its cover
Independent bookstores are often no more ethical than the big chains
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real