Secret Author
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
Never trust a publisher
Once Twitter takes against you, they will wash their hands of you, Pontius Pilate-style
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
