Books
Eat more meat!
Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
American Dirty Tricks
When white American author Jeanine Cummins wrote a novel about Mexican refugees a critical firestorm erupted
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
