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Lionel Shriver

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Drama in Paris / Immigration’s theatre of the absurd

Drama in Paris / Immigration’s theatre of the absurd
23.01.2025 7

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Environment / The case against a ‘climate emergency’

09.01.2025 9

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Finally we’re ditching the woke brain rot

30.12.2024 30

The Times

Lionel Shriver

Why didn’t I read the comments sooner?

I adhere to a pretty iron-clad rule: not only do I avoid the bumper cars of social media, but I don’t read the comments after my columns. Many...

22.12.2024 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Remember Covid? / The column you don’t want to read

Curiously unobserved about last month’s US election: how astonishing it was that the candidates’ policy positions during the pandemic played a...

08.12.2024 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Non-crimes / The true meaning of free speech

Right after Donald Trump’s landslide, I opined on YouTube that this turning point could sound the death knell for Woke World – an observation that...

21.11.2024 4

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Hobson’s choice / America’s last undecided voter

This is the last column I’ll file before the American presidential election, and I’ve dreaded writing it for months. (The next one, filed on...

24.10.2024 30

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Amy Wax / My friend, Amy Wax, the pariah

Spectator TV viewers may recall that in last week’s Americano podcast, Freddy Gray interviewed the University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy...

10.10.2024 2

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Health / Whatever happened to Lionel Shriver?

For many readers, my absence from these pages may have gone unnoticed. Those few who’ve detected my disappearance might have idly concocted...

26.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver