Biography
Flirting with damnation
As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer
Tom Stoppard: A private man now on parade
This biography is a testament to detailed analysis and intelligent insight, says Alexander Larman
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
It ran in the family
Alexander Larman reviews Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand
Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers
Charles Moore’s multi-volume biography of Thatcher harks back to an ancient tradition
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
