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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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
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam