Veterans
Playing with fire
Is writing a show about burns victims and the pioneering Guinea Pig Club really “appropriate”?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Security is important — but you often have to keep a very close eye on the guards
Under the gun
Government to tally veteran suicides for the first time
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
