Colin Thubron
Hard times on the Black Dragon River
Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed