Sally Rooney
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
Log on, tune in, burn out
Dan Hitchens weighs the charge sheet against baby boomers, who stand accused of creating a precarious world of low pay and endless work
Decline of the English novel
Bereft of God and middle class values, authors are left with identity politics
Abnormal People
The TV adaptation that reflects the falsity of campus novels
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
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
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing