Significant others
Selina Todd reviews Female Husbands, by Jen Manion
Event horizon
Boris’s believable border boasts
Sporting life
This biography on Sir Stanley Rous and sport in the twentieth century is scholarly, balanced and well-written, says Lincoln Allison
The cancelled charity boss who wants to be mayor
David Scullion speaks to Nick Buckley about his ambitions for Manchester
Fixing the unbroken
Reform of judicial review is a solution without a problem
Where is the West Country accent?
Once the BBC has finished buttering up the North, how about promoting the West? asks Roland White
Are UK dons hopelessly naive on China?
Beijing’s growing influence means hard choices are going to get harder for the Government
150 years of Palm Beach
Paul du Quenoy learns how this enclave for the American elite shifted from swamp to swank in Russell Kelley’s: An Illustrated History of Palm Beach
Murders for April
From the golden age of crime fiction to the modern day, Jeremy Black recommends seven books to see you through April
Vanilla flavour Labour
Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt