Patricia Highsmith
Much more than just a cunning linguist
Patricia Highsmith’s voluminous diaries paint a full picture of their author
The talented (if very odd) Patricia Highsmith
On the 100th anniversary of her birth, Highsmith remains one of the great uncompromising writers of the last century
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
