Books

The BBC is a liar. But is it noble?

Robin Aitken’s analysis is idiosyncratic but rings true

Marxist Magic Realism

How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness

Life gets worse for verse

Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon

A tale of two stranglers

We won’t accept policemen are corrupt because the thought of anarchy is intolerable

The games people play

‘This Sporting Life’ should be read by our managerial ruling class who dismiss what they do not understand as “populist” or “right-wing”

Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects

Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer

Unmasking of a libertine lord

With a wealth of original material, Daniel Smith meets all the requirements of high-class popular history

Fear, loathing and revolution

Was Alexis de Tocqueville the first social scientist?

Bred to be killed

The Captive-bred lion industry has been under fire for some time and Unfair Game will only add weight to calls for its cessation

The real facts of life

A welcome intervention by an author determined to return some rationalism to the trans discussion