Bookshops
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
Bookshop serendipity
A bibliophile carries books like memories
Hay dude
Hay is the place to go for a literary harvest
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
Vanishing worlds
Round-up: what do these books tell us about literary culture in 2021?
Don’t judge a bookshop by its cover
Independent bookstores are often no more ethical than the big chains
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
