Book Review
Pains of Victorian labour
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic
Lost in translation
Do not dream of comparing Roma history with the Jews
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
On the radar
A fresh telling of a largely forgotten slice of wartime history
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
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)
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious