Amazon
Policing the marketplace of ideas
How woke pressure groups are subverting big tech
The catalogues of Christmas past
The great London department store Gamages was the British Amazon of its day
Bored of the Rings
Is it time for the Tolkien industry to give it a rest?
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
Covid amnesty for everyone but the politicians
MPs made their bed, but that doesn’t mean we have to lie in it
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?
The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Keir the Coaster
The Labour Party’s craven leadership will leave the electorate guessing when voting starts
Zut alors! Ten Per Cent is no Call My Agent
The remake of the French original is rather merde
Porn in a time of war
Ukrainian refugee pornography exploits suffering for profit
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings