Detective novels
Murders for December
From Sweden to Bombay
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves