Somerset Maugham Award
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
Brussels’ Tammany Halls
How narcopolitics and Islamo-populism are reshaping the EU capital
Finding faith
Peterson spends great time and care examining a cornucopia of Biblical stories
The Gospel of Donald
An exclusive look into the Bible according to Trump
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The short lives and violent deaths of Sweden’s rappers
Swedish rap is a window into a violent underworld
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
