Publishers
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
A farewell to Carmen
Why will there be no more Carmen Callils?
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration