Literary Review
The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?
The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage
The myth of infallibility
Dispiriting as it may be, great authors are capable of writing bad books
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
