However, Dr Games believes it can be traced back to last summer’s Issue 20 of Booklaunch, which carried an editorial that read: “We used to worship at the LRB’s altar. Not any longer.” The editorial went on: “Something has happened at the LRB that makes one warier of its contributors and less confident about their judgments. The magazine’s once unrivalled openness has been replaced by small-mindedness in which the rigour of proper argumentation is now accompanied by labelling, dog whistles and taunts. “Fun for those who like that sort of thing; dishonourable if you hold the LRB to a higher...