Nostalgic fantasies of the British Raj
Shattered Lands: Five
Partitions and the Making of Modern
Asia by Sam Dalrymple; e Indian
Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the
Billionaire Prince by Imran Mulla
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Goodbye to the Gorgoneion
Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori