Writers
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
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy