journalists
On British journalists and court eunuchs
Why we learn so miserably little from the British press
Nuzzi, Lizza, RFK and the death of journalism
What is the point of writing without readable prose?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Attack of the Hydies
How the Tillies and the Lillies are transforming right-wing newsrooms
When journalists self-censor
The media should report the news whomever it inconveniences
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
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone