Journalism
A peerless witness
What will strike readers is the sheer continental range of Norman Lewis’ writing
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice