Publishing
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Publishing skewered — in 1939
Anthony Powells’s pre-war novel is still the more reliable guide to the book business
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
Balancing the books
My disappointing dealings with Unbound, a publisher that collapsed owing authors money
Diana Lampwick: Dutiful daughter
A pinch of Tolkien diffused in a pool muddied by the feet of Michael Moorcock
What can right-wing authors do?
Not just another anti-woke rant
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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
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere