Publishing
The Greatest Man I Ever Knew?
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
The Politics Of The Bottle
The political implications of prosecco versus a pint
Left Foot Forward
A plethora of new Left-leaning French magazines show that in France the intellectuals remain socialist
Victorian Values
A “Metaphysical” dining society sets an example for today’s academics
The Writer
A new short story
Drawing A Line
How did a cartoonist who regularly draws Mohammed feel on hearing about the events in Paris?
Write On
In today’s publishing world, independent authors are at a huge advantage
Poetic Injustice
The Arts Council is no longer subsidising poetry publishers but giving direct grants to poets instead. The result: the death of the enriching working relationship between editor and poet
Kindle a Passion
I have no doubt my new ebook, Islamophilia, would have scared any conventional publisher to death
Publisher Be Damned
The feud at Germany’s most respected publishing house reads like a passage from Vanity Fair written by Thomas Mann
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?