Puffin
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
