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
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
