Newspaper Advice
The wisdom of agony aunts
Advice columns are conforming to the outlook of their publication
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist