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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism