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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants