Obituary
Drum fast, die young?
Taylor Hawkins is not the only drummer to meet with an early grave
Bowling Warney
The King of Spin proved himself a custodian of the game long ago, on a summer’s day in Croydon
Last laugh
Intellectual wits like P J O’Rourke are rare birds these days
Between the cerebral and the warm
University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne was the quintessential Englishman
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
The knife-wielding obituarist
Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive
John Saumarez Smith: a bibliophile and a gentleman
The Heywood Hill bookseller has died
Remembering Brian Micklethwait
The man who made libertarianism fun
Remembering Colin Powell
Powell’s real legacy was Barack Obama
Remembering Sir David Amess
Well loved by Commons staff and MPs alike