Travel Writing
Punta del where?
Old Europe lives on in the new world
Too woke to travel write?
Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre
Hard times on the Black Dragon River
Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds
Disappearing dreamlands
Is Europe losing its interesting edges as temperatures climb year by year?
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
The extraordinary life of Jan Morris
The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks