Features
Chasing rainbows
Dissident civil servants have been risking their careers to fight a losing battle against burgeoning Whitehall wokery
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
The love that can’t be erased
A recent court case exposed the surrogacy industry’s big lie
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
