English Literature
Orwell, Camus and truth
On honesty as an attitude
The humanities aren’t dying; they’re emigrating
Humanities catastrophists are just professionally insecure
Keep physical books
We have to protect cultural history
All sweetness and light
Two hundred years after his birth, critic and poet Matthew Arnold still has much to teach conservatives
Philip Larkin: the man who was always right
The great man’s peerless poetry is not the “soppy stuff” of cheap romanticism, but a harsh, unsparing — and often beautiful — look at the world
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Must we mourn a decline in English degrees?
It does not entail the decline of English literature
Canterbury Tales redux
Pilgrimage still serves to bring people together
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather