Nobel Prize
Small lives and violent deaths
Not so much nailing down a topic as pricking it with a thousand needles
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Bad bets by the Booker
In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?
Nobel Noblemen
Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice
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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
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
