Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed

This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir

The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland

Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees

Women now dominate the literary landscape

You better believe the earth is flat

d’Ancona is guilty of the same kind of arrogance and bad faith he identifies in other liberals

Is Europe losing its interesting edges as temperatures climb year by year?

Lucy Kellaway’s memoir is a must-read for anyone considering the profession

Round-up: what do these books tell us about literary culture in 2021?