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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order