Young Adult
Time to start a new chapter
The rapid decline of reading should set alarm bells ringing at the Ministry of Education
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
The YA boo gang
Young Adult fiction has become cancel culture’s savage front line
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
How to get filthy wrong
Gary Stevenson has replaced economics with politics, and the results speak for themselves
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Extending “work of equal value” claims is absurd
Keir Starmer’s parting gift to the economy could be catastrophic
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it