MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Never underestimate a Tory buffoon
WILL PODMORE applauds a book that lays bare the facts and the ideological contradiction of the Johnson premiership
Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds his first Cabinet meeting following the General Election on Tuesday December 17 2019
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell
Atlantic Books, £25
THIS is a terrific book, a real page-turner, and a fascinating account of an administration that was both very significant and hugely disappointing.
In 2019, the Labour Party played into Johnson’s hands. “It was supreme irony that the pro-EU opposition finally granted Johnson his wish for a general election,” say the authors.
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With far-right parties making major gains recently in Europe, it’s worth paying close scrutiny to Farage’s party and taking the threat it poses seriously, writes DIANE ABBOTT