Literature
How we devalue the Book
Literary culture is under threat from quarters meant to celebrate and promote it
Call of The Leopard
A wine inspired by a classic Sicilian novel, savoured very, very slowly
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
The dark horse of Durban
The work of Roy Campbell does not deserve to be ignored
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
Most Read
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
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?