This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book

This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe

Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?

What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism

This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle

The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth

The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture

Dominic Hilton spots a sniper on a balcony, has embarrassing encounters in lifts and thinks gender-neutral language would make learning Spanish a lot easier

Michael Collins on the issue-led rehabilitation of a fast food giant