Secker & Warburg
The world at my feet
D. J. Taylor recalls a time when he was the future of the English novel
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia