Simon Raven
Simon Raven
A controversial writer who could produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous
I miss the Simon Ravens
Twinkly-eyed twentieth century mischief makers have crashed out of fashion
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
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
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence