Jeff Sessions is the loneliest man in Washington
The Attorney General was supposed to catch the snakes slithering into the White House.
Thursday
‘Steer clear of that cave boy, James Dean, and grease ball, Elvis Presley’
Clancy Sigal’s posthumous autobiography is sex, guns and celebrity from start to finish.
The marvellous humanity of Meg Wolitzer
The author delicately slides from comedy to tragedy and back again, and from class to class.
Social conservatism is dead
Pope Francis’s modus operandi is to leave the reporting of his views to third parties and then sit back and enjoy the storm
You didn’t have to be mad to work for Tommy Nutter — but it helped
How an eccentric tailor took over Savile Row in the late 60s.
In my illness and old age, children give me hope
The War Horse author on how he got through his cancer treatment.
The Empty Quarter is a great refuge for lonely hearts
William Atkins uncovers the many guises of the desert with much imagination, insight and wit.
Forgive Dinesh D’Souza — he knows exactly what he’s done
Three theories on why the conservative author received a presidential pardon.
Forgive Dinesh D’Souza — he knows exactly what he’s done
Three theories on why the conservative author received a presidential pardon.
Who is the mysterious sociologist following Richard Spencer around?
And why has she signed an NDA with his think-tank?
Why are we rolling out the red carpet for one of North Korea’s most brutal men?
Kim Yong-chol is believed to have ordered the sinking of a South Korean ship, killing 46.
Wednesday
Morgan Freeman and the troubling direction of #MeToo
The movement calls for a change in culture as impossible as it is counterproductive.
Rudy Giuliani is turning the Mueller probe on its head
Trump is resurgent as the prospect of a collusion case seems dimmer than ever.
Tuesday
Roseanne isn’t abhorrent — she’s just mad
Couldn’t ABC have reminded people that Roseanne Barr is mentally ill, and more in need of treatment than degradation?
Disney is considerably more repulsive than Roseanne
Of course her tweet was in bad taste. So what?
Donald Trump and the art of the conspiracy theory
From the White House, the president offers what amount to daily lessons in the objurgatory arts.
Sympathy for the devil: Doesn’t Harvey Weinstein deserve pity, too?
His attitude to sex must have been warped by the superabundance of opportunity.
Monday
Did Ronald Reagan almost spark a nuclear war?
In 1983, Soviet spies skulked in our midnight streets to check the lights were out.The Kremlin, convinced the West was planning nuclear war, launched Project RYAN, whereby agents watched for signs of impending attack. One was that lights would burn all night in government buildings, as fiendish mandarins drew up the war plans. It didn’t … Read more
The sacred chickens that ruled the roost in ancient Rome
Birds in the Ancient World is a consummation of all of Jeremy Mynott’s accomplishments
How I became Peter Fallow
Arranging a dinner between Tom Wolfe and Christopher Hitchens led to my immortalisation in literature.