My sordid tryst with Boris
What promises is the Prime Minister actually going to deliver on?
In Praise of Plod
How our police lost their way, and why they’re still better than the alternative
Good Night! (Erato)
French pianist Bertrand Chamayou’s compilation of lullabies shows a degree of taste and independence unusual in a young soloist still at the start of his journey
A very English take on espionage
Alexander Larman on the newest release in Mick Herron’s best-selling and critically acclaimed Jackson Lamb crime series: Slough House
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Why can’t we have a good film of Noël Coward’s plays?
If one judged the playwright solely on the film versions of his work, one might be forgiven for believing that he had never been particularly accomplished
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
Remembering James R. Flynn: scholar and free speech advocate
Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
The kid stays in the picture
Alright Mr. DeMillions, I’m ready for my close-up
From the ashes, nothing
The façade of Robert Jenrick
You’ll grow tired of the Brexiting
Maybe Theresa won after all?