J.L. Carr
The world at my feet
D. J. Taylor recalls a time when he was the future of the English novel
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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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Shabir Ahmed is a symptom
Deporting the grooming gang leader, while just, will not solve our problems
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The cosy world of an Oxbridge golden age
Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine