London Review of Books
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
How I used to love and now hate the London Review of Books
Speaking words of wisdom, LRB
Hitchens: Safe and unsafe
He thought America’s leaders were unworthy of its potential as a great Enlightenment republic
Two cheers for the LRB
The magazine that declares its main aim is to review books does anything but
Life gets worse for verse
Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy