Michel Houellebecq
“Submission”: a retrospective
Michel Houellebecq wrote a great novel — but it need not be entirely prophetic
France’s philosopher king
There is a jarring disconnect between Michel Houellebecq’s critiques of sexual liberation and his dissolute lifestyle
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment