This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
From the Trojan War to conflict in Ukraine
Rich insights into eras of incessant bloodletting
From Hegel to Hollywood
Few who sought to understand Hegel have got the gist of the Geist
Fathers of the republic
A long overdue reassessment of the whiskered High Victorian statesmen whose fervent but nuanced nationalism did so much to forge modern Ireland
A brilliant biography of an elusive genius
Spinoza may be the master thinker to whom we owe modernity itself
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The feud that made the modern age
A new book breathes new life into historical fiction
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
