Book
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
The book to read if you’re intent on visiting Sri Lanka
A S H Smyth on Andrew Fidel Fernando’s Upon a Sleepless Isle, winner of the 2019 Gratiaen Prize
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
