Books
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
The breakdown of higher education
A British-American professor explains how diversity ruined academia, and how to reform it
Fairy tales have gone woke
Pulling up fairy tales by the roots in the name of feminism makes barren fare for the reader
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
Bursting the bubbles
Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
The writings of Lewis and Tolkien embody conservative environmentalism
The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get