Literature
Fairy tales have gone woke
Pulling up fairy tales by the roots in the name of feminism makes barren fare for the reader
The great Rugby School library sale
As Rugby School prepares to auction off some of its most prized literary possessions, one must wonder what Dr Arnold would have to say
The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism
The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Sean Connery: the man beyond Bond
Who was the “real” Sean Connery?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions