Garth Greenwell
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
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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 errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time