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
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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering