Pseudonym
What’s in a nym?
How and why writers conceal their true selves
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Rakes, ruin and refinement
Peter Glanz’s Savage House captures the splendour, squalor and social ambition of Georgian Britain with remarkable historical confidence
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny