London society

Why was an erroneous graph used to justify the second lockdown?

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Two stories are emerging from the Covid Inquiry: one that it wants to tell and one that it does not.…

A smart take on literary London: Dead Souls, by Sam Riviere, reviewed

12 June 2021 9:00 am

Sam Riviere has established himself as a seriously good poet who doesn’t take himself too seriously: his first collection, 81…

The polite anti-Semitism of 20th-century Britain

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Though it seems to begin as an affectionate memorial to his maternal grandparents, a testimonial to a rare and perfectly…

Lenin, Hitler, Sloane Square – a Polish noble's 20th-century Odyssey

26 July 2014 9:00 am

If Vincent Poklewski Koziell has really drunk as much as he claims in this book I doubt he would be…