An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
The jokes must go on
Christopher Bray reviews Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Mass-goer who glorified mass production
Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
The all-round smart cookie with a tin ear
Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful