Children’s Books
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 creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
