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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
Where is the West Country accent?
Once the BBC has finished buttering up the North, how about promoting the West? asks Roland White
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves
He’s behind you!
Turn again, Detective Inspector Hathaway
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
A Covid bounce?
The election results on Thursday haven’t proved lockdown sceptics were wrong
Trans activist’s car crash interview
Repeating “no debate” for years has left these organisations unable to answer questions
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
Priti Patel vs College of Policing
Is the Home Secretary seizing the political initiative before she’s forced to?
IDS – I nearly walked out on Xi Jinping’s address to parliament
Duncan Smith sees TPP membership as a means of securing an Anglo-American counterbalance to China in Asia-Pacific