Literary success
Remembering an unfashionable writer
BBC Radio 4 attempts to resurrect fallen literary figures.
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
