Colm Tóibín
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
