Russell Hoban
Sparks, glitterballs and masterworks
The greatest works of fiction published this year
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The Post Office scandal
Legislation to resolve the injustice is not as straightforward as it seems
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings