Publishing
Underrated: Melanie Phillips
The most reviled personality in British journalism is a courageous writer whose independent thought has made her the target of boorish, misogynistic and anti-Semitic abuse
Pride of the CUP
Cambridge University Press have just published a book by an anti-Zionist, anti-democratic Hegelian elitist. The reason? He has the right enemies
Labour’s Tory Boy
A Journey by Tony Blair
Writers of the World, Unite
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War by David Caute
In the Loopy
‘The Sexual Politics of Meat’ is a dotty book, but a dangerous book too
Party Lines
Daisy Waugh overhears the verdict on the latest political memoirs
Save, Save and Save Again
Even new publishing technology can’t save a writer from disaster
Mary-Kay Wilmers
The editor-proprietor of the London Review of Books is clear about her prejudices. Not so clear is why the Arts Council should fund her magazine
Nancy Sladek
The editor of the Literary Review deserves praises for giving its writers a free hand — as long as they do not succumb to puffery and hype
Stranger than Fiction
‘I found myself in the perverse position of praying, in defiance of my politics, that healthcare legislation would get bogged down. Selfish? Hell, yes!’
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?