Memoir
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
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
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
From the Trojan War to conflict in Ukraine
Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting
What awaits the IDF
Memories of unforgiving urban combat in a tank
Scrutonising Roger
How can we secure the legacy of Roger Scruton?
Fighting back against the IRA mob
Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave
Bookshop serendipity
A bibliophile carries books like memories
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
