Salman Rushdie
Time the Old Gang departed
The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching