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
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts