Novelists
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
J.K. Rowling is honest, not “nasty”
Attempts to discredit the author are increasingly pathetic
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
