Books
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
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
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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
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Don’t expand the Equality Act
Labour should not expand the Equality Act — it will hit the poor hardest
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect