Secret Author
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
Never trust a publisher
Once Twitter takes against you, they will wash their hands of you, Pontius Pilate-style
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
The truth about London Bridge
Flawed narratives should not distort historical memory of the planning for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
