Issue: July 2021
Scare talk on steroids
The Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric about the return of Jim Crow laws risks derailing their voting rights legislation
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Dilyn the dog gets a gift from Huawei
…and meets Bozza’s independent advisor on standards
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
The YA boo gang
Young Adult fiction has become cancel culture’s savage front line
Vienna’s hapless missing link
Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed
A return to Lord’s
Two years on from the gripping World Cup Final, there are few pops and bangs this year at Lord’s
The court of King Boris
Our everyday politics are court politics and Boris Johnson is king in all but name
Mrs May: My part in her downfall
The battle to secure a clean Brexit was won only after Brexiteers secretly obtained a copy of the 1922 Committee rules
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel