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
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?