Book Review
An Enlightenment king vindicated
Andrew Roberts dispels the myths and sticks to the facts about George III
Murders for early December
Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era
Thinly-veiled but enjoyable nonsense
Donald Trump should write a novel to at least give him the chance to deliver a bit of payback for this release by Hillary Clinton
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
The scatalogical subversive
Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep
Rumours of a crime
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a flawed man, but he should be allowed to be condemned by his words
What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The dark underbelly of the sex industry
Advocacy for the idea of sex work has not been matched by advocacy for the exploited
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
