Names
The decline of the great literary name
Where are the Don Quixotes and the Anna Kareninas of the modern age?
Game of the name
The naming of horses can be wonderfully inventive
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
The Rise of the Dominics
Dominic Green on the prevalence of his own name
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history