Literature
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
Medicalising art
Literature needs better friends
Our kids need sad books
They appreciate beautiful melancholy
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
Why do we like Larkin so much?
On a love with limits
Amanda Scrimgeour: Glamour hound
Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals
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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
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing