Literature
Star-crossed Labour
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are a classic doomed couple
How Dostoyevsky dissected activistic hypocrites
Dostoyevsky’s outrageous grotesque now runs riot in our institutions
The case against An Inspector Calls
A short predictable play is a bad introduction to literature
Why does reading matter?
Books are not just a means to a morally superior end
Being a “book person” doesn’t make you a better human being
Being a bookworm can encourage a dangerous form of moral self-flattery
Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
The decline of the great literary name
Where are the Don Quixotes and the Anna Kareninas of the modern age?
Why the Odyssey matters
Its themes will always be relevant to the human experience
Against literary Anglophobia
Julian Barnes appears keen to deconstruct the nation that made him famous
The stupidification of Scottish schools
Scottish education is being dumbed down in the name of diversity
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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
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt