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
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics