From Clive Myrie to Danny Cipriani: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The View From Down Here by Lucy Webster and So To Speak by Terrance Hayes.
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Natasha Walter’s radical inheritance
A daughter’s homage to the mother who had to negotiate family and the urge to activism.
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The Trussites are plotting their comeback
A year after Liz Truss’s chaotic premiership, her inner circle believe their time will come again.
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Richard Osman’s bland Britain
How did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?
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The Kenneth Branagh-Agatha Christie cinematic universe
In his third reinvention of Hercule Poirot, Branagh lends him new substance, a new moustache – and a new story.
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Please, Davina McCall: leave middle-aged people alone!
Her new dating show My Mum Your Dad left me in a state of almost pure trauma. Will this be…
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How to build a dictionary
A new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Why do business people talk so loudly?
My afternoon treat of whitebait and oysters was ruined when Knob of the Year sat down at the next door…
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Colson Whitehead’s Q&A: “In the US, we throw up statues of any old dimwit”
The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author on Mark Rothko, Harrison Ford and tender baby-back ribs.
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Who would be a student in 2023?
Undergraduates face inadequate maintenance loans, poor housing and a soaring cost of living – I feel dreadful for them.
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The strange rebirth of Sinn Féin
Under Mary Lou McDonald the party is on the path to power – but can she keep its uneasy alliance…
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Hobbes was wrong
John Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
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Subscriber of the week: Shadi Brazell
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Churchill and the quest for greatness
Throughout his career, Britain’s wartime prime minister studied how other leaders – Roosevelt, Attlee, Stalin and Gandhi – exercised power.
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This England: Bog standards
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Letter of the week: Wealth and learning
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The parallels between Argentina and Britain’s inept political class
Over the past few decades, both countries have experienced near financial catastrophe at the hands of reckless leaders.
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Lisa Nandy fails to take Starmer’s reshuffle hint
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The great crack-up
We inhabit an economy too small to deliver the social goods British people expect.
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The bitter-sweet beauty of late summer gardening
As the gloom and magic of autumn looms, another season of the year sneaks out the door.
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