From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
