Publishing
Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
Words can never hurt?
A new satire skewers the publishing industry
Jack Tagg: Beacon of provincial culture
An eccentric force for cultural good
Please like and share me
Why do we podcast?
(Some) Writers Wanted
The drive for diversity can lead to discrimination
Keep physical books
We have to protect cultural history
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
A farewell to Carmen
Why will there be no more Carmen Callils?
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
