French Literature
A writer unsure who he wanted to be
Emile Zola: A Determined Life by Robert Lethbridge; Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby
France’s philosopher king
There is a jarring disconnect between Michel Houellebecq’s critiques of sexual liberation and his dissolute lifestyle
Orwell, Camus and truth
On honesty as an attitude
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Rumours of a crime
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a flawed man, but he should be allowed to be condemned by his words
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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 UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity