Writing
How will AI shape criticism?
Like it or loathe it, generative AI is influencing how we write and edit
Against literary safetyism
Writing, and reading, is about taking risks
Publish or be damn sceptical
Exciting new developments in “the death of the author”
What can right-wing authors do?
Not just another anti-woke rant
We need higher standards for academic writing
Confused thinking and confusing prose has led to a reversible decline
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world