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
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities