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
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
