Novels
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett
Corto Maltese – graphic novels on a higher plane
The faithful translation of Hugo Pratt’s graphic novels introduces his hero to the wider audience he deserves
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet