Grub Street
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
My advice to young writers
You are hoping for a successful career, but it’s going to take more than just the work
Grubbing a living
These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history