Publishing
Jack Tagg: Beacon of provincial culture
An eccentric force for cultural good
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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
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
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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
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names