Writers
A columnist’s farewell
One column ends and another begins
The art of literary celebrity
How do writers become more than their books?
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
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
