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Bobbies’ shame
Why did the police facilitate a sham funeral for a dead terrorist during Covid restrictions?
Cheques and balances
John Self says that while writing has always been seen as a vocation, the characters many authors care most about are the ones printed on their royalty statements
An exercise in self-flagellation
Bruce Coleman finds that this book on the West India Interest is more polemical than historical
A year of fear
Dr Gary Sidley analyses the language of fear that has been peddled throughout the pandemic
Faith Masks
The ideological significance of face masks, the new vestiture of the faithful
Policing the far Left
Emma Webb says the police are damned if the do, but even more damned in the long run if they don’t
A QC’s truth
Jolyon Maugham and Professor Lavery are misrepresenting the Bell v Tavistock case
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Bohemia, SW3
Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs