Caroline Moore
Outsider’s Insight
Book review of The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
In Love with His Public
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater
Swallowing the Party Line
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
Tudor Fixer
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Postcards From the Damned
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Heartbreak and Privilege
Ettie by Richard Davenport-Hines
Love in a Snowy Climate
Human Love by Andreï Makine
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts