History to be heeded
The evils of Hitler and Stalin should haunt us today
Against inhumane architecture
A new book deconstructs nihilistic pretensions of intellectuals
An island to admire
A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man
The North Riding, rediscovered
A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
Hitler’s revenge
The RIBA Journal confuses architectural history
Anglican age of a thousand churches
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change
Places to be
A wonderful book about English eccentrics impresses James Stevens Curl
Coarseness and viciousness
James Gillray could be cruel but was a fine propagandist
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation