Racism
Head boy and head-scratchers
Come autumn, competing literary establishments parade their best
Are the Left the REAL racistz?
Right-wingers adopting identity politics are doing the bidding of the left
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
The not-so-beautiful game
Paul Lay and Nick Timothy discuss the morality — and immorality — of football
Is the Ukraine conflict about me?
A narcissistic generation reacts to the shadow of war
Wolf in plod’s clothing
Why “Non Crime Hate Incidents” don’t seem to apply to the cops
Merry race-baiting
Black Lives Matter is dreaming of a black Christmas
Misguided and muddled
By inviting listeners to admit their complicity, Eshun failed utterly to make his case
Missing from the penalty spot
Boris Johnson fails the Mings test
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
