Hangover Square
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
Eyes on the prizes — and the surprises
Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
Balance the books
Britain’s soaring debt may not be as sustainable in the long term as figures suggest
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform