Literary success
Remembering an unfashionable writer
BBC Radio 4 attempts to resurrect fallen literary figures.
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead