It’s nonsense to say that critics ‘should consider whether, based on ethnicity and/or privilege, they are best positioned to interpret a story’
By Toby Young
I miss the drama of being a boozer — the feeling of self-loathing when you wake up with a hangover
By Toby Young
The rogue greyhound tried to prize Mali from my hands in a frenzy of blood lust
By Toby Young
It’s called ‘diversity training’ but it might as well be called ‘how to speak woke-ish’
By Toby Young
In the past, I found listening to a novel less satisfactory than reading it — but Bernard Cornwell has changed that
By Toby Young
Shuttling between world cities will be a luxury of the super-rich, just as it was before the Swinging Sixties
By Toby Young
To be seen as a moral exemplar by your children is a gold standard that most of us fail to live up to
By Toby Young
The instructions are supposed to be idiot-proof, but the company didn’t envisage anyone as incompetent as me
By Toby Young
It’s almost certain that if Karel and his family had remained in Prague, they would have died in the camps
By Toby Young
When the children are fighting, I just slip out of the back door clutching a bottle of wine
By Toby Young
For lazy journalists, Wikipedia is the only thing they read when ‘researching’ an article. And why not?
By Toby Young
The reality is that conspiracy theories are now more ubiquitous on the left than they are on the right
By Toby Young
The three scientists who created it aren’t outliers or cranks, but professors at Oxford, Harvard and Stanford
By Toby Young
