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
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
