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
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?