Words can never hurt?
A new satire skewers the publishing industry
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Hatred and mental illness are not mutually exclusive
Violent men being mentally ill need not make broader societal phenomena irrelevant
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
