Novels
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
