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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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable