Criticism
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
