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
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