Bunty Malone
Best-selling novelist
Cheryl Partington
Media Don
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
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
