Literature
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
It’s not Rooney, it’s you
When identity is the primary means of engagement with art, criticism is reduced to mud-slinging
Long-form television it is, then
The home of mid-budgeted literate films aimed at adults is no longer at the cinema
Monuments to victory and loss
This is a beautifully illustrated, handsomely printed and thorough, scholarly exposition of the triumphal arch
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
The Day of the Jackal: fifty years on
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most exciting, page-turning novels ever written
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
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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
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration