Autobiography
How to be a ghost
Five elements to make a ghostwritten autobiography sing
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
Let It Be: Have we passed the golden era of the rock ‘n’ roll memoir?
There is an inexhaustible public appetite for learning about the private lives of our idols, but they don’t make rock stars like they used to
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
The jokes must go on
Christopher Bray reviews Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Teaching at Gordonstoun’s prep school
How Jeremy Black filled the ten months between leaving school and starting Cambridge
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
