Morante de la Puebla
Sublime in Seville
Happiness is a cold, autumnal day with a warm gun
Why should young people join the Army?
It should hardly be surprising that recruitment and retention are too low
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
