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Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
The detective who knew too much
Ian Thomson delves into the most-investigated unsolved killing in British history as the investigation report was finally released on 15 June
Click all about it!
How has political reporting changed in the last twenty years, and is it all for the worse?
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
Still fit to print?
The rise and fall of the British newspaper
The noise before defeat
Even a good retreat would not have rescued a bad war
Oki Doki Gen Z
Meet the self-made millionaires who support Bernie Sanders and stream ten hours a day
“Reframe your trauma”
Rape survivors are not “bigots” for wanting female-only spaces
Inside the small town newspaper
How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”
Smoked, but not fired
Trans activists at Sussex University have failed to get a female professor sacked
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
The myth of the plucky Brit
Notwithstanding our favourite WWII stories, derring-do doesn’t win wars