Horror
The legacy of The Woman in Black
Susan Hill’s story remains one of the most pervasively unsettling tales in the English ghost story tradition
Why does The Shining still scare us?
A large part of its appeal revolves around a simple fact, it is utterly terrifying
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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
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics