Danielle McLaughlin
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
