Books
In praise of post-liberalism
Michaela Community School is unique in its robust defence of tradition, truth, belonging and other conservative instincts
Raunchy tale of pedigree chums
The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective
How not to earn a living
More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer
Preposterous pipedreams
Varoufakis’s new novel, Another Now, is full of incoherent blather between dolts
The lasting power of simple virtues
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
Inside the room where it happens
John Bolton’s account of his time in the Trump administration gives a damning report of the president’s ignorance
Derrida deconstructed
Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible
European champions
Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany
Can political biographies ever be any good?
Political memoirs can be essential, eye-popping reading if the subject is handled in the right way
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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
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette