'What Bower brings sharply into focus here is how lonely Johnson is, how dependent on excitement and applause to stave off recurring depression.'

From the archive: Michael White analyses the life and leadership of Boris Johnson.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/crisis-what-crisis-3

'Sometimes, dragons’ greed can have comic consequences, including indigestion. We read the 1685 tale of the dragon of Wantley, whose weakness is, comically, his arse. The hero delivers a lethal kick to the dragon’s behind, and the dragon dies.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/terrors-of-the-sky

'We must all "shoot down the canard", McManus writes, that the World Cup is going to a nation "that doesn’t know or appreciate the Beautiful Game".'

Barnaby Crowcroft on the rise of Qatar.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/full-of-gas