Pride and joy
Since 2011, black Africans have been the dominant black group in the UK. Many of them are the descendants of…
Gluttons for punishment
Nick Hornby yokes the two in an enjoyable jeu d’esprit – but, apart from troubled childhoods and prodigious energy, the thing they really share is Hornby’s admiration
Sticky subjects
Queasy nostalgia gives way to mounting anger in a satirical novel about post-war Britain, seen through the eyes of a Birmingham family
Baby talk
Infant twin girls, in the first year of their lives, muse on everything from the futility of existence to the purpose of memory
Low life
After commuting to Marseille for nine days of radiotherapy, I spent the week alone in the cave, in bed, in…
No country for old men
Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film
Written in stone
‘Poor old Mornington Crescent, I feel sorry for it with this highly made-up neighbour blocking the view it had enjoyed,’…
Busy Lizzie
Elizabeth the First is a ten-part American podcast series that isn’t about Elizabeth I at all. The assumption of its…
Bad education
King Hamlin is a shock-horror drama about gang crime in London. Hamlin, aged 17, has left school without learning any…
Man up
Sunday’s SAS Rogue Heroes – about the founding of perhaps Britain’s most famous regiment – began with a revealing variation…
The Battle for Britain: Michael Heath
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The eyes have it
Do you remember Osvaldo Golijov? Two decades ago he was classical music’s Next Big Thing: a credible postmodernist with a…
Prepare for lift-off
The first time I saw Franz Ferdinand was at the sadly lost Astoria, just after the release of their first…
Books of the Year I
Our regular reviewers choose the books they have most enjoyed reading in 2022
Is now the time to make peace in Ukraine?
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, British press and public opinion has been firmly behind Volodymyr Zelensky. But is…
Could Gretchen Whitmer lose in Michigan?
The gubernatorial showdown in Michigan has quickly become one of the most exciting races heading into the 2020 midterm elections.…
The more things change…
In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf…
The Midterms: America faces its Litmus Election
In the 14th Century, Spanish chemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova discovered that litmus, a compound derived from natural bacteria, would…
Xi’s nuclear warnings are a coup for Scholz
Checks and balances on Vladimir Putin don’t come from inside Russia. The people around him supported forced mobilisation, pushed his…
