Mary Gaitskill
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
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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
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it