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
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
Only Joe Biden can save America
He needs to keep reminding the American public that unless they vote for him they are evil and racist
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
