Joseph Heller
The rise and fall of Sad White Men
Novels about middle class male malaise are now considered passé but they were once both groundbreaking and shocking
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
