Issue: June 2021

The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously entertaining dissection of socialism

Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence

Robert Thicknesse ruminates on The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko

New safeguards are needed after the Post Office acted as investigator and prosecutor

John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain

No one can sensibly doubt that American primacy is much more agreeable to us than Chinese hegemony

Bozzo has a new food for me: little bits of paper with numbers on

Robin Ashenden says the critic would have declared war on an ill-judged edict

Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens need to work as one if they are to overcome an electoral system that helps the Conservatives