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?
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
