Zadie Smith
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
Decline of the English novel
Bereft of God and middle class values, authors are left with identity politics
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change