Englishness
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
