Laura Thompson
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
