Books
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliot Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The unhappy iconoclast of the Right
J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
Riotous tale of a vivid life, superbly lived
Alexander Larman reviews Lady in Waiting: My extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown, by Anne Glenconner
Can hurt feelings trump free speech?
Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer
Speaking truth to power
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Feminism for the few
Ella Whelan reviews Women vs Capitalism by Vicky Pryce
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
Small is best
In Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa small nations lead in terms of economic and social development
In with a bang. Out with a whimper
The state bankrolled nationwide celebrations for Britain joining the European Community. Not so the leaving party.
Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
Teaching at Gordonstoun’s prep school
How Jeremy Black filled the ten months between leaving school and starting Cambridge
Liberalism: a bad idea and how to cope with it
The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous
Whither the Lib Dems?
The fate that awaits the Liberal Democrats after such an awful election