Alfred Hayes
Matters of life and death
John Self reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams, and The End of Me by Alfred Hayes
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
