There are now so many awards that not winning one must seem a source of shame

Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life

This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull

Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty

Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere

As Britain is about to declare victory over the virus, Christopher Pincher enjoys a Latour-Bellona

Hannah Betts goes preppy in penny loafers and Ralph Lauren

Government and the purpose of higher education

Hephzibah Anderson reveals how RHS Bridgewater illustrates some of the tensions inherent in our newfound appreciation of what remains a highly curated kind of nature

This book offers an insider’s account of the extraordinary (in)decision-making among Johnson’s team during the most tumultuous year in modern history