John le Carre
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Spilling the beans on the great spymasters
Fantasy is an essential part of what we are pleased to call reality
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Please sit down
Take a moment to enjoy your plot, says Hephzibah Anderson
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
John le Carré: a man who rose through the English class system as it was collapsing
John le Carré’s voice of old-fashioned English authority was one acquired through merit and bearing rather than birth
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Toxic relationship
For a long time, it has seemed that you’re nobody until somebody’s tried to get you cancelled
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
National disservice
Young people have little to be grateful for, so why should they “give back”?
When in Spain…
…gorge on Iberian delicacies
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Fined over facts?
Financial censorship is not the right way to confront the AfD
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
