Critic
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
Pure gold among the C4 dross
Adam LeBor strikes television gold
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre