Sandy Devereux
Smallscreen scriptwriter
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
