Gothic Literature
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
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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
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul