Salman Rushdie
Forty-five years of excellence
John Self lauds a writer who has ended up outshining all of his peers
Rushdie-ing to judgement
Recent accusations of harassment have exposed the real nature of crybulling
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life