Publishers
Spare me your “Books of the Year”
Or, how to come across as a person of taste and refinement in the annual back-slapping fest
We can’t publish this!
The beloved classics that were repeatedly rejected
The Hon. Jeremy Wellbourne
Are you a young (under 50) writer with a passion for social justice?
A crisis of sex and money
The publishing economic model is broken whilst male authors are shunned
All the industry crises in one place
The book industry bible gives no hint that there’s an intelligent, informed readership out there
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
Most Read
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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined