Robert Low
College Daze
A university reunion offers a useful reminder that the Sixties might not be quite as we remember them
One And Only Ronnie
The playwright Ronald Harwood is deservedly acclaimed, yet has never had a play staged at the National
Overrated: Sayeeda Warsi
The rise and fall of a poster girl for integration who now depicts Britain’s Muslims as an oppressed minority
Swiftian Satire Of Trumpland
Howard Jacobson’s new novel is a brief but entertaining assault on Trump
Writers Welcome
The history of the Authors’ Club
Friends, Romans, Courtiers
Peter Stothard’s memoir of the 1980s follows a quartet of attendants at Mrs Thatcher’s court
We Stand Corrected
A review in the Guardian of Jeremy Lewis’s biography of David Astor contained an extraordinary number of errors
An Editor Ahead Of His Time
David Astor was the man who made the Observer the most popular Sunday paper of its time
Comeback For Political Novels?
The Daily Mail‘s Stakhanovite sketchwriter has finally written his debut novel
Our Island’s Storytelling
How Britain discovered a lucrative new role as a global cultural powerhouse
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?