Christopher Hitchens
Biography and the perils of possessive families
Nigel Jones, a chastened practitioner of writing biographies, warns that writing someone’s life can be a dangerous venture
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
Angels still sitting on my shoulder
Douglas Murray discusses the importance of intellectual mentors and reveals two who continue to guide him
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
