Literary Review
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
The Dystopian Age of the Mask
How Ernst Jünger predicted the ubiquity of masks
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Is Boris Boris’s worst enemy?
Let’s ask Michael. Where is Michael? Who put that knife there?
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
A crisp House white
Christopher Pincher on the wine of Westminster
Nobel Noblemen
Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice
Why are we so interested in Historians?
The historians we love wrote about Big History at a time when Britain mattered
Union flags alone are not enough
Even vexed vexillologists know fighting separatism needs more than three colours
Can the BBC rebuild our schools?
To rebuild our education system, we must encourage that undervalued institution; the Family