English Literature
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The Bard of Balliol
Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
Been there, read that
Can we leave old books alone?
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
Bad bets by the Booker
In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?
Is the English Lit degree killing love for literature?
Alexander Larman and Graham Stewart discuss the direction of English Literature at universities
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
