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Letters – November 2025
Submit a letter for consideration about this month’s edition by emailing the Editors: Miss Hardeep Matharu and Mr Peter Jukes on letters@bylinetimes.com
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News In Brief – A COSTLY BAN
What are the Conservatives afraid of? It’s a question without an answer, as a second Byline Times journalist was blocked from attending its annual party conference, Josiah Mortimer reports.
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Notes on Now – Cruelty
A lecture by Paul Gilroy led me to read At the Mind’s Limits by Jean Amery. It includes an account of how he was captured and tortured by the Gestapo before being sent to a concentration camp. Amery insists that “torture was the essence of National Socialism”. Many states have tortured people, he writes, but…
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Zeitgeisters – Lamorna Ash
It is unlikely that Lamorna Ash could have anticipated that her second book, Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion, would have proved so timely.
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In Absurdia – A Lord’s Purpose
When Baroness Mone gave her maiden speech in the House of Lords on 7 March 2016, it must have felt like all the years of networking had finally paid off.
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Bad Press Awards – The Inflatable Boxing Glove for Performative Anger
If newspaper columnists got as intensely and frequently angry in their everyday lives as they pretend to in print, the prison cells of Britain would be stuffed with them.
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Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
Disproportionately represented in the House of Lords before last July’s General Election – when they had just 11 MPs in the Commons – the Liberal Democrats have some making up to do now they have 72 MPs. Leader Ed Davey does not, however, appear spoilt for choice when it comes to finding suitable candidates for…
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Leper in the Commons
When I was appointed political correspondent of the Evening Standard in the early 1990s, I knew very little about the House of Commons and urgently needed to remedy my lack of knowledge.
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Planning for No Deal Brexit Under Boris Johnson Scuppered UK’s Readiness for a Pandemic, Covid Inquiry Hears
Report exposes delayed pandemic preparation due to government machine having to focus fully on avoiding a crash-out exit from the EU without a deal.
