Johnny Mercer
The usual suspect
Johnny Mercer is on the trail of who is preventing Northern Ireland veterans from legal protection
Can British veterans ever vote Tory again?
There’s only so much defilement you can take of the principles you fought to defend
Brought to heel
Go, Johnny, go!
Mercer’s friendly fire
His latest bout of unprofessionalism has not gone unnoticed
Conflict of interest
Nigel Boardman’s inquiry into the Greensill Affair squanders the opportunity for real reform
Bursting Boris’s bubble
Labour has found an attack line that has the benefit of being true
A fully-packed bookcase
Three books that each offer a traditional holiday-reading pleasure
The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
Afiya and me: searching for East Africa’s lost tribe
David Smith recalls his time as a journalist covering the devastating famine in Karamoja, northern Uganda, in the 1980s
A widow’s might
The Widow is intelligent television that probes the dark side of the international aid industry
The modern age in lists
Plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off
Canadian statues matter
Monument vandalism is a cover for an all-out assault on the country itself