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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane