The Bloomsbury Group
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition