Literary Criticism
Spare us the wagging finger
Few things are more tedious than books moralising about the deficiencies of yesteryear
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
Let children’s books be children’s books
Literary hyper-analysis can do more harm than good
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Critical theory is dead
And theory itself has killed it
Frankie Ho: Controversialist
Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
