Book Review
Mr (or Mrs) 15 per cent
The best agents are unobtrusive and make sure attention is focused on their writers
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
Twists of the tongue
When competing languages collide, demography eventually supersedes prestige
Who said feminists forgot about men?
Educating Caitlin Moran (and her critics)
Lost in the eye of the hurricane
Crisis is the pinwheel of modern democratic politics
Asking the right questions about race
If racial disparities don’t equate to racism, then what does explain it?
The people’s captain
What our politics can learn from Kevin Sinfield
What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
