Sound and fury
The new Rolling Stones single, supposedly their best in many a decade, is called ‘Angry’. And while on the surface…
High life
Gstaad This is the best news since the Bush-Blair duo saved us from the nuclear holocaust Saddam was about to…
Wet, wet, wet
A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third Poirot film (after Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the…
Parallel lives
Aged 69, the travel writer had a stroke and spent his last 20 years as a hemiplegic – and writing this memoir of his father’s life intertwined with snapshots of his own
The greed and the glory
The American author turns her attention to colonial injustice in a tale about a servant girl who flees a blighted English settlement in 17th-century Jamestown
Love in Middle England
A delicate, funny and generous-hearted novel about thwarted love and its aftermath in a 1960s Middle England
Double trouble
Naomi Klein had got used to being confused with Naomi Wolf. Then Covid hit and it was no longer a joke
Quiet brilliance
The author once takes a big issue and, with her characteristic quiet brilliance, illuminates it in a small homely setting
Word association
From an employee of a tram company in Birkenhead to the deeply eccentric Alexander Ellis, a celebration of the army of unpaid contributors to the first edition of the OED
The breath of life
Snatches of memoir, poetry and observation from a writer whose main preoccupation is recording the lives of others
‘I am a strange owl’
Jenni Fagan dug up all the files and archives on herself as a baby in care to write this stunning and poignant memoir
The restless soul
The author’s Japanese ghost stories brought him fame and fortune – but his own life was even stranger than fiction
‘The bedrock of my existence’
Michael Peppiatt has had a lifelong obsession with Alberto Giacometti – and it shows in this perfect biography, says Lynn Barber
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s speech a ‘turning point’
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent speech at the Australian Press Club could well be a key turning point in the wider…
Apartheid at the opera?
I have been alerted to The Australian’s appalling report that arts organisations and institutions across the country are offering subsidised ticketing…
G20 and our evolving ties with India
The recently completed G20 summit in New Delhi brought with it some noteworthy developments. As an organisation, the G20 is…
The dangerous dog crackdown shouldn’t stop with banning Bully XLs
There isn’t much you can do in modern Britain without encountering some licensing scheme, but one area of life which…
Osborne, Balls and a glimpse of Westminster’s rotten culture
Podcast mania continues at Westminster. Discarded grandees from all parties have noticed the success of The Rest is Politics, the…
Britain is heading for an autumn of discontent
Train drivers will strike for two days in the coming weeks, on 30 September and 4 October. These dates are…
20mph isn’t plenty: the war on motorists has gone too far
‘Absolutely insane’ is the verdict of Penny Mordaunt MP on the Welsh government’s introduction of a 20mph speed limit on…
Champagne and America is a love story without end
From the beginning, Champagne has never been just a drink, or a region: it’s a celebration, an occasion, a trophy,…
In praise of Justin Welby’s ‘less bossy’ Church of England
Justin Welby is not my sort of Anglican. Or maybe he is, in a way. I’m not really sure who…
Why rugby fans love to hate Macron
Emmanuel Macron was in Lille on Thursday evening to watch France defeat Uruguay as the Bleus made it two wins…
The police can’t be trusted to track our e-bikes
In more innocent times, I’d have responded to the news that police wished to fit tracking devices to electric bicycles…
