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Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing

Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions

Christopher Pincher offers some simple rules to stick to for cocktail-drinking

Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth

How endless optimism can make it difficult when confronted with unpleasant choices

Graham Stewart and Boris Starling discuss the forthcoming Lions tour of South Africa

This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport

The man who would do anything for a scoop