Pan Books
The Pan Book of Horror Stories: top-drawer gore
Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison