Dystopian Fiction
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
Dreams of dystopia past
At the end of a dismal year, consider the cult dystopias of the optimistic 1990s.
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill