Damon Galgut
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner