Modi
How Modi turned Covid-19 into a cash machine
For the Indian premier, the virus is a deus ex machina
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
