Ian McEwan
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
The elegant extremist
Ian McEwan has always tempered his shocking stories with polished prose
More like a lecture
“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing