Letters
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Just a little note to say “I hate you”
Poisoned pens pierce the veil of sociable living
Letters for October
Housing, festivals, intellectuals and X
Letters August-September
From buildings to booze
Letters for July
Anglo-Saxons, Clement Attlee and love for our mascot
Letters for May
Arson, fraud and a little poetry
Letters for April
Wikipedia fibs, Swiftian corrections, and non-plussed 11 year olds
March: Letters to the Editor
Academic follies and tinkled ivories
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
