Books

Criminal insanity

Nigel Biggar reviews Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, by John Lloyd

Mass-goer who glorified mass production

Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik

Unpacking the shoeboxes of history

Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell

The big state heir to Blair

James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy

A brave voice against the barbarians

David Pryce-Jones recalls a life of literary friendships and the defence of Western civilisation

Tarnished golden land

Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U

It’s good to talk

Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay

Healing power of outdoors

Alexander Larman reviews The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman

Time the Old Gang departed

The Amis/Barnes/McEwan generation have dominated the book scene for too long

China travels and travails

Rana Mitter reviews The China Journals and The Colour of the Sky After Rain