Natasha Brown
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
