Publishing
Writing bigly
Jordan Peterson’s trouble with his publisher will look mild when compared with Donald Trump’s impending book
The YA boo gang
Young Adult fiction has become cancel culture’s savage front line
Power without pain
Social media “platforms” such as Twitter and Facebook plainly are publishers.
They should be held to account as such
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
Beyond unthrilled by all the hype
When a new major title by a big cheese arrives, expect a tidal wave of rolled logs
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.