Fantasy
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Tolkien, 50 years on
The true scale of his legacy is gradually becoming apparent
Head boy and head-scratchers
Come autumn, competing literary establishments parade their best
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
The unstoppable rise of geek culture
The cult of Elon Musk reveals some horrible truths about our non-virtual world
Britain must embrace the 40k mindset
Forget goblin mode, say goodbye to global Britain, and embrace your inner Ork
What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?
Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Irish women are being stripped of constitutional rights
Article 41.2 makes maternity leave a woman’s right, not an obligation, so why do so-called “progressives” want to get rid of it?
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
