Fair cop
When he gave you a punishment he’d ask if you agreed it was fair
Chucking out time
Why are Ministers with private offices happy to deprive backbench MPs of staff?
Fundragers splash the cash
The money being poured into US elections is soaring – but it’s often wasted
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
The life and loves of John Nash
Andy Friend provides a readable account of Nash’s life, but omits important detail about how the artist made others feel
Preposterous pipedreams
Varoufakis’s new novel, Another Now, is full of incoherent blather between dolts
Beating the rap
Julie Bindel shows how abused women are being let down by domestic violence perpetrator programmes
Don’t expect Biden to cut the ballooning US deficit
Under Biden, the US will continue amassing a huge deficit. Is it manageable?
Learning from the past
Much of Wisdom of the Ancients makes one appreciate how we get sidetracked by so much trivial nonsense
Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves
Biden’s Latin lesson
How Hispanic voters across the country returned historic swings to Trump