Kazuo Ishiguro
Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties