JK Rowling
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Watson’s elementary mistakes
Rowling vs Watson tells an age-old feminist story
The gender fanatics are never satisfied
Not only do they demonise dissent, they demonise not demonising dissent
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Not going to be ignored (w/ Victoria Smith)
On the demonisation of middle-aged women
Publishing needs JK Rowling to be a monster
The facts are irrelevant
Most Read
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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?