Big Man Walking
“Not many people change the world. Fewer still are thanked for it.” – Neal Ascherson reviews a biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who joined that small group when he helped to bring about its end.
The Catalan Referendum
A piece looking at the issues at stake in today’s Catalan independence referendum, how we arrived at this point, and what might be next.
The Last London
The author Iain Sinclair traverses the city, records what he sees and considers what has been before.
The Most Eligible Bachelor on the Planet
Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s thriller The President is Missing gets the London Review of Books write up it deserves.
NHS SOS
A sobering but essential read on the NHS. The story dives deep on the successive policies Whitehall and Westminster have implemented to effect change, interspersed with the experiences of individual patients and staff in the system.