JL Carr
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late