David Mitchell
Matters of life and death
John Self reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams, and The End of Me by Alfred Hayes
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
