Women Writers
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
The solipsistic siren
The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Why do women bear the brunt of literary censorship?
Cancellation is the modern manifestation of public shaming culture
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
