Inside the room where it happens
John Bolton’s account of his time in the Trump administration gives a damning report of the president’s ignorance
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
A troubled behemoth
John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy
Saved for posterity
John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
Our friends in court
John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg
“I am a total act” (but a second act?)
John Bowers reviews A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
The future of the Conservative Party
John Bowers reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
