Knut Hamsun
Novelist, Nobel laureate and Nazi
Which of these three facts is the most important?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)