Writers
My advice to young writers
You are hoping for a successful career, but it’s going to take more than just the work
Miriam Spector
Sad to relate, there are celebrity ghostwriters who despise their clients
Against literary Anglophobia
Julian Barnes appears keen to deconstruct the nation that made him famous
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
On Linden Green
The reverential nature writer
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards