World Politics

Love Me Why Don’t You?

Donald Trump may appear to thrive on antagonism – and indeed he has no trouble finding it – but he is also a man who…

Death and Denial

The Irish make death an occasion, surrounding it with ritual and sociability; in England funerals are private, almost furtive, affairs. But perhaps both approaches, behind…

The Way It Is

The Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard has admitted that he dislikes plots and feels oppressed by fictions. Writing, for him, is rather ‘a matter of…

World Politics

The Bully and the ‘Beast’

Shouting and tantrums are common in Fleet Street newsrooms, but it is only at the ‘Daily Mail’ that swearing and abuse have been elevated to…