Elena Ferrante
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children