Catcalling
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
