Terry Eagleton
Terry tackles literary lightweights
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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?
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Why assisted dying failed
It was dangerous and it had no democratic mandate
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The glories of front gardens
People who pave over gardens have hearts of stone