Memoir
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
My kitchen confessions
I wasn’t cut out for the life of a chef
Life in the press gang
A scattergun memoir with the decline of newspapers as gloomy backdrop
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
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
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition