Books
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Murders for June
Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
The Conservatives have been too soggy, not too harsh
Their voters expected them to cut taxes and immigration — they did the opposite
The follies of human quantitative easing
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
