Writers
Crowdfunding in an empty street
Not everyone can succeed at the art of asking
Murders for the New Year
A dark start to 2023
New Year’s writing resolutions
What I will try to improve in 2023
Creativity and chaos
Writers with biographies to match their books
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
Murders for November
Gripping plots and dodgy prose for the autumn months
Danny Lestrange: Eternal Columnist
From the immaturity of young adulthood to the immaturity of old age
A literary master of wine
There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book
Against writers
But in praise of writing
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
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
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
