Novels
Satire needs to find new targets
There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett
Corto Maltese – graphic novels on a higher plane
The faithful translation of Hugo Pratt’s graphic novels introduces his hero to the wider audience he deserves
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
Dealing with sticky fingers
Theft is the enemy of good business, leaving less for profit, wages and the taxman
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
The failures of Boris
The Prime Minister is responsible for most of the things that have gone wrong
The war for warmth
Russia is sending General Winter west
This is Starmer’s chance
He could be the next Harold Wilson
Surviving the love of a psychopath
Norman Scott gets the last word against the man who raped and plotted to murder him
Boris-go! Boris-go! Boris-go!
Se vuol ballare, signor contino, il chitarrino le suonerò
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act
The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism
From RP to cock-er-ney
Why can’t politicians be themselves?