Children’s Books
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Let children’s books be children’s books
Literary hyper-analysis can do more harm than good
Our kids need sad books
They appreciate beautiful melancholy
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
Libraries and laureates: a study in necessity
Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one
Wolf in sheep’s clothing
What are we supposed to do when “Brenda the sheep” gets hungry?
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
