The Tories, in office, prepared a trap for Labour. It had a large sign on it saying ‘It’s a Trap’ and then next ...

‘OK, that’s that. It’s over now,’ Björn Ulvaeus thought after Abba broke up in 1982. ‘But,’ as Chal Ravens writes in the latest LRB, ‘Björn’s zeitgeist detector was, as usual, on the blink.’ By the ...

More than 1.8 million people who received the Disability Living Allowance had been reassessed by October 2024: 25 ...

For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly ...

The ingredients of compost are dead things or, as the YouTube gardener Bruce Darrell put it, ‘anything that was recently ...

His spaniel was up on its hind legs, paws on his master’s belly, where my paws happily had lately been. He was my host, and I ...

Mario Vargas Llosa has died at the age of 89. In a recent issue of the London Review, Tony Wood wrote about the ...

Several years ago at a party I met a man who claimed that he navigated London using a compass. Fed up of following directions on his phone, he had bought a handsome, waterproof instrument and fixed it ...

When Adolescence was released on Netflix last month, it was pegged as an incisive inquiry into the manosphere and ...