Will anyone fight, fight and fight again to save what’s left of New Labour?
Blairites are coming to terms with the consequences of their ‘lack of moral authority’ – and emotional intelligence
I knew it! All these toffs have depraved tastes
The real disgust wasn’t about the pig’s head. It was about the awful band Supertramp
Is my only choice to be a cynic or a sucker?
We must keep a sense of trust in a fragmented society full of beggars, egotists, cold callers and scam artists
The truth about me, Dave and the drugs
It’s shameful, yes, but almost everyone who went to public school in the late 1970s ended up with a prog-rock habit
This will-they-won’t-they rate-rise saga has dragged on long enough
Plus: Corbyn and the City; the fall, rise and fall of Redcar steel; and your responses on non-execs and the Living Wage
The great British kowtow
The Dalai Lama is right: the UK's China policy is about 'money money money" - where the sale comes first
‘Money, money, money’
The government says it has ‘turned the page’ on Tibet. Its spiritual leader is amused
The royal road to peace
Constitutional monarchy is a cornerstone of many stable democracies – so why are we so keen to avoid it in places like Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan?
Corbyn’s salvation
The Labour leader isn’t the angry atheist you might expect – and that could help him reassure the public
Theatre of politics
1606 was not only the year of Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, but of plague, witchcraft and explosive politics, all vividly captured in James Shapiro’s latest tour de force
Dick at his trickiest
Nixon is reindicted, in Joan Brady’s America’s Dreyfus — for besmirching forever the reputation of lawyer and diplomat Alger Hiss
Lines of beauty
Jones’s floating lines and rumpled landscapes are handsomely illustrated in Ariane Bankes’s and Paul Hills’s tribute to his ‘Vision and Memory’
Love, loneliness and all that jazz
As Allen completes his 47th film, two new biographies pay tribute to his genius as a director on the eve of his 80th birthday
How cool is Britannia?
Britain may have lost its empire — but it’s still a superpower when it comes to popular culture, argues Dominic Sandbrook's latest book
Tree devotion
Pakenham’s latest book sees him mourn the loss of his trees from disease or storm damage as though they were close friends
The voice of Crow
If only Max Porter were less under Ted Hughes’s wing, his striking verse novella, Grief is a Thing with Feathers, would properly have taken flight and soared
Complicated, but unfussy
Boyd has captured a certain female voice perfectly in his superbly written and desperately moving novel, Sweet Caress
Cry havoc
Clare and Christy Campbell tell the heart-rending story of the heroic war dogs who sacrificed their lives (usually pointlessly) for their country
Sibling rivalries
In The Past, a family gathering in a Devon country house turns into a tight-lipped drama
Pillar of the Victorian age
Gavin Stamp returns to the subject of George Gilbert Scott, architect of the Albert Memorial, St Pancras and plenty more pinnacled Victorian extravaganzas
Coming up for air
Jenny McCartney talks to the celebrated photojournalist about war, guilt and Aylan
