DJ Taylor
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
Posh pinks
Upscale rosés sans biodynamic woo-woo, please
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
The Conservatives must repent and rebuild
The Tories have to put themselves in a position to exploit Labour weakness
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
