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 art of influence
Culture and propaganda are not easily separable
The King of Italy
A fragrant modern Barolo is royalty among Italian wines
How to nix the nats
Governments should stop indulging the SNP
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
Truss for Chancellor!
She might not be the best PM but Britain needs her brain
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
Incompetents abroad
Our hopeless foreign policy elite has no idea of what winning in Ukraine looks like — or how to bring it about
A new blasphemy law?
LGBT groups are demanding a ban on so-called “conversion therapy” — but the devil’s in the detail
Restore the family to British social policy
Rakib’s Britain: The Left has betrayed its roots by ignoring the evils of family break-down
Starmer could do better
Boris would be a more effective leader of the opposition than Sir Keir
The game is not the season
On the nature of the Blob