Archives
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
The Pan Book of Horror Stories: top-drawer gore
Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
Gutless humanism
In their war on all things religious, Humanists UK likes to pick soft targets
Two cheers for the government’s immigration plans
New measures are a step in the right direction but do not go far enough
Torypocalypse
Rishi Sunak has industriously succeeded in alienating everyone
December letters
Stuffed ballot boxes, menaced Baltic countries and Tory tearaways who came good