Somerset Maugham Award
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party