The Pursuit of Love
The enduring appeal of the Mitford family
As the BBC’s adaptation of The Pursuit of Love begins, Alexander Larman questions whether the new dramatisation will do justice to Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
