Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton and the mystery of the blue plaques
The Famous Five react to Auntie Enid’s cancellation
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
