J.W.M. Thompson
The First Steps of a Great Newspaperman
Sarah Johnson introduces an account by her late father of his earliest days in journalism
Trials of Windsor Life
Book review of The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
He Never Had It So Good
Review of The Macmillan Diaries Prime Minister and After, 1957-1966 Edited by Peter Catterall Macmillan
A Vanished World
Peter Paterson’s engaging memoir evokes an era of Fleet Street camaraderie which has long since disappeared
The Misfit at No 10
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler
Close to the Bone
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross
Feathered Friends
Birdscapes by Jeremy Mynott
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past