Essays
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter