Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
Welcome waste land
The marshes, creeks, hulks and hidden beaches of the Thames estuary are thrilling
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Caught in the class war crossfire
Independent schools stand to lose, whoever wins the general election
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
Right-on cue
As usual, the Academy flagellates itself over insufficient African American Oscar contenders
Stag do
Patrick Galbraith takes a shot at deer stalking