Celebrity Authors
Nicola’s novel? Just say no
There are far worse celebrity writers than Nicola Sturgeon — that doesn’t make her a novelist
How we devalue the Book
Literary culture is under threat from quarters meant to celebrate and promote it
Freddie Simmons
An author who turned failure into success
The art of literary celebrity
How do writers become more than their books?
Celebrity crime novelists: the latest literary fashion
Crime and thriller titles have replaced Strictly Come Dancing as the new craze for celebrities
Pointless protest
Spare us the snooty superiority of “real” writers affronted by celebrity novels
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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
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes