Adam LeBor
The many women of George Orwell
Orwell’s biographer reveals all in this week’s Podcast
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
It’s time to build prisons
Inadequate facilities hurt everyone
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
A cynical man without any plan
Boris Johnson was an opportunist Prime Minister whose gambler’s luck ran out
Why do we like Larkin so much?
On a love with limits
There is an alternative
The Church should invest in parishes and ministry if it wants to reach a new audience
Inclusion isn’t a dirty word
Conservatism is the really inclusive worldview, because it offers us rules to live by
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
Fat chance
Plus-sized actors and theatres rattling the begging bowl
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say