Leader’s Debate
The laughometer at the leaders’ debate
The issue being dodged by both Johnson and Corbyn was trust. Principally, the lack of it
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded