Publishing
Six ways to make things better
Bringing back the Net Book Agreement would be a good start for badly-paid authors
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
