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Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
An American icon is born again
Kanye West was mocked for rediscovering faith, but he has genuine concerns about the modern world he helped fashion
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Lost elysium of the Cambridge Backs
One of Britain’s most celebrated views will soon be dramatically changed
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
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
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
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right