Creative Writing
The transferable skills scam
How higher education learned to stop worrying about disciplines and love generic competencies
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic