Memoir
Poignant power of cheap food
Would I read it if the subject wasn’t famous? One has to say yes, with chips and curry sauce
A foodie in his element
The author is evenhanded and accurate about the nouvelle cuisine movement, says Paul Levy
Memoir of a troubled woman
Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
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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
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt