Publishing
Harriet Pester: Bookworld PR
Alas, not everything is plain sailing in the world of book-trade PR
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The bad old days
The “golden years” of publishing were characterised by booze, bullying and amateurishness
First-night nerves
Books, beaches and a beloved bullet
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
Majority special!
Global majorities of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your lanyards
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Yachts wrong with the world
Donald Trump, whiteness, superyachts and other evils
A last chance at class
Labour is running out of time to put working class MPs into parliament
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Dancing around the issues
Who won? Certainly not the country
