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
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago