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Our friends in court
John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Britain’s little Hitlers
Richard Griffiths reviews Failed Führers, by Graham Macklin
Too much of a maverick
Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell
Matters of life and death
John Self reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams, and The End of Me by Alfred Hayes
Spuds with everything
Potatoes were hyped as the key to a well-nourished populace by the European intelligentsia in the 1700s
Angels still sitting on my shoulder
Douglas Murray discusses the importance of intellectual mentors and reveals two who continue to guide him
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
A very private affair
Even without the Human Rights Act, our judges would have developed a new law on privacy by now
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime