Helen Garner
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The truth behind The Salt Path
A rampage across middle-class rural England with the conspiratorial intimacy of Bonnie and Clyde
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Shooting the breeze
Patrick Galbraith welcomes an ambitious new shoot tenant
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state