English
The rise and fall of English Lit.
Oxford showed little enthusiasm for its national language and the literature that followed
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
Against Anglophobia
The English should stop sucking up to people who dislike them
In defence of traditional swearing
And against the cult of “cockwomble”
In defence of good grammar
Why Angela Rayner needs to stop torturing our language
Linguistic confusion
Dominic Hilton has more trouble with English than Spanish in Argentina
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?