Interview
Where are the Parkies of tomorrow?
In a risk averse world of fakes and phonies, the ever-authentic Sir Michael Parkinson is sorely missed
Toppling Babel
How truckers took on Trudeau
Canary in the cultural coalmine
Robin Ashenden talks to the prescient Lionel Shriver about cancel culture
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Senator Marco Rubio says business-as-usual with Beijing is “not an option”
In an exclusive interview with Kapil Komireddi, the US senator condemns the Communist Party of China as a “genocidal regime” which poses “the greatest threat” to international peace and security
Antarctic adventure
From the submarine service to the world’s southernmost sub-post office, A S H Smyth interviews Sally Owen, a Falklands-based dentist who also helps to conserve the historic sites of Antarctica
The radical feminist campaigner who has ‘nothing left to lose’
Marguerite Stern, a feminist activist who was attacked yesterday in France, speaks to Julie Bindel about why she will never give up campaigning for the rights of women and girls
Surviving the straits of hell
An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz
What makes a Penguin Classic?
Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
