Richard Powers
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics