Richard Ford
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist