Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
The legacy of The Woman in Black
Susan Hill’s story remains one of the most pervasively unsettling tales in the English ghost story tradition
Hail to the Chief (Part VI)
What will historians make of Donald Trump’s presidency? Graham Stewart discusses with Jeremy Black
It’ll all be ended by Christmas
Don’t say ‘Protect the NHS’ three times in front of a mirror
High priestess of a new morality
At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees
Julie Burchill – a national treasure?
The former Queen of the Groucho Club, for all her contradictions, is a rare voice of courage in an increasingly conformist world
He tweets, he scores!
Allegra thinks it’s all over
Should MPs read?
If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?
Lockdown sceptics are society’s gadflies
‘I can’t agree with Alistair Haimes that the arrival of vaccines should change how we feel about lockdowns’
Memoir of a troubled woman
Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation
The British Twitter Stasi
Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’