Literary Review
The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?
The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
