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Murders for late May
From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring
A very English take on espionage
Alexander Larman on the newest release in Mick Herron’s best-selling and critically acclaimed Jackson Lamb crime series: Slough House
There’s more to the Chris Chan case
How this story is bigger than “trans activist does another awful thing”
How the British Army fought the IRA
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the British army’s thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles
Allsopp’s: the rebirth of the original Burton IPA
The Allsopp family has revived the original Burton IPA which made its name and fortune more than a century ago
Euthanasia isn’t progressive
It’s been done elsewhere and the results are horrifying
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires Diary 9.0
Dominic Hilton spots a sniper on a balcony, has embarrassing encounters in lifts and thinks gender-neutral language would make learning Spanish a lot easier
Where LGB fear to tread
Stonewall programmes stifle the very people they pretend to protect
Star power in a parallel universe
West End openings of Constellations and Cinderella offer stage-starved audiences some magic
Sweet taste of sovereignty
It seems “Global Britain” is smaller and less delicious
Scum of Britain, unite!
Enterprising politicians can use insults to their own advantage
Why we’re in the state we’re in
Woolly thinking, cloudy expression, and the possibility that great matters are at hand: two books by a pair of Foreign Office grandees