Publishing
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
The death of the literary feud
When writers become fighters
Disturbed by blurbs
On the ethics of literary marketing
Publishing needs to be more diverse, but how?
Real pluralism is about ideas, not just identity
Boys need books
The gendering of publishing has gone too far
Excessive expectations
On writers and mental health
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
Most Read
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
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear