Twentieth Century
Crooked timber
A fine survey of the life and work of Isiah Berlin
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
The grand old man and the ingénue queen
The devotion between Britain’s wartime premier and its greatest modern monarch
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
