Books
Murders for early June
Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
Anatomy of disaster
The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom
Was he pushed?
Robert Maxwell’s last two days are covered in great detail in this new book
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
Rules of enragement
At its best Conflicted reminds us of the central importance of meaningful debate
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Debutant novels and great expectations
John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions