Samuel Beckett
August/September 2021: Letters to the Editor
Samuel Beckett is at his best when he’s being brief
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
Waiting for normal
Why lockdown is the perfect time to read Samuel Beckett
What will Net Zero cost?
Extravagant plans for a greener country will provide cold comfort for ordinary people
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
Tragic hero of Drury Lane
This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight
Why are political donations suspect?
Donors pay twice: with their money and by having their reputations tarnished
How I brought down Theresa May
Christopher Howarth on his role in removing a prime minister
Crouching exploitation, hidden misogyny
Leftist men’s navel gazing is a paper-thin disguise for the continuation of patriarchy
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal
The long view: Britain’s armed force
Graham Stewart and Jeremy Black on how the British military has been shaped over the last two hundred years
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Too big to fail
It would have been better for Simone Biles if we’d just accepted her defeat