Archives
So long, Sloanes
The upper-middle-class Rangers who epitomised the Eighties have ridden off into the Wiltshire sunset
The tribe that disappeared
The demonisation of the white working class becomes more overt by the day. They are being airbrushed from history
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