Mystery
Murders for the end of the month
From laugh-out-louds to gripping plots, Jeremy Black recommends murder mysteries for the end of the month
Hat trick ball
Help me trace Gunner Costello, the fast bowler who may have survived a Court-Martial
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
