Book Review
Missing the point on lockdown
A new book on civil liberties and the pandemic is bogged down by petty proceduralism
Let’s be Frankl
The importance of meaning
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
The Greek prince
Philip the foreigner and the press
Reconstructing a self-destructive life
One thing in Roth’s messy existence makes him worth our time: his writing
Tackling men’s problems
More male nurses may not be enough to fill an existential hole
The regal rise of le petit caporal
Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution
Those new puritans
A righteous dissection of Poundland post-structuralists
Murders for November
Gripping plots and dodgy prose for the autumn months
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
