Thriller
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
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
