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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are