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
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”