Book Review
Lifting the mask of a mercurial master
Soden shares the spoils of untrammelled access: vivid evidence of the man not seen
The angst of Eros
Debating porn over the decades
In search of social justice for women
Two incisive and thought-provoking books explore how society deals with infertile women
The bats have left the bell tower
What happened to goths?
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
Starving for a good argument
Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot
Dark obsessions of the Demon Dog
Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
