Westminster’s downward spiral
Boris Johnson and his court brought an already corrupt system to new lows. Can ethics be restored to politics?
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The best children’s books for spring 2024
Find cinematic joy and heroes seeking comradeship in new books for young readers.
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Stephen King’s Carrie and the horror of girlhood
The triumph of the writer’s debut novel, published 50 years ago, is its understanding of a teenage girl’s destructive anger.
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Your own personal Jesus
In the beginning there were many different sons of God – Western Christianity triumphed not by destiny but accident.
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A boyhood built on fear
The cruelties of Maidwell Hall boarding school, described by Charles Spencer in his memoir, have blighted my adult life.
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Delusions of immortality
In Why We Die, Venki Ramakrishnan demolishes the crackpots and billionaires behind the anti-ageing industry.
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Suzie Miller: “I was so moved to see my play Prima Facie changing the law”
She was a lawyer for 15 years, then left to become a playwright. The resulting work has shifted approaches to…
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How Big Tech rewired childhood
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight back.
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