Book Review
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Raw and immersive tale of the Civil War
The siege of Basing House encompasses all of England in microcosm
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
The solipsistic siren
The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Surviving the love of a psychopath
Norman Scott gets the last word against the man who raped and plotted to murder him
Bombastic lecture on the evil empire
From the suppression of colonial documents, Caroline Elkins spins a tale of violence
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance