Meg Mason
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point