Christopher Hitchens
Biography and the perils of possessive families
Nigel Jones, a chastened practitioner of writing biographies, warns that writing someone’s life can be a dangerous venture
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
Angels still sitting on my shoulder
Douglas Murray discusses the importance of intellectual mentors and reveals two who continue to guide him
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Sorry, not sorry
Sincere apologies require a shared set of values
