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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
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taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park