Books
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Right Royal Rubbish
The new Meghan and Harry book is full of sycophantic trivia, almost as if it came from the horse’s mouth
People Need Borders
Louise Perry reviews Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries, by Frank Furedi
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
England’s soft underbelly
Patrick West reviews The Channel, by Charlie Connelly
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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
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport