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Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Digging up Franco, burying history
The resurgent Spanish left wants to exhume the former dictator’s remains and even outlaw any favourable mention of his legacy
Rebel Rouser
Titania joins Extinction Rebellion
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Darren against Remain’s Goliath
Abused as a criminal and fined £20,000 by the regulator, a hero of Brexit has been vindicated
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Naughty but nice
Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
