reading culture
Are we really “post-literate” now?
Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines, but better books need publicity
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics