Books
White Supremacists: Anti-racists need you!
Ewa Dymek & Mateusz Dymek review Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
Saved for posterity
John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
Return of the Never Trumpers
If the Trump experiment ends in failure, where will it leave those conservatives who told you so?
Decline of the English novel
Bereft of God and middle class values, authors are left with identity politics
Days in the life of the Fab Four
Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown
Our friends in court
John Bowers reviews “Enemies of the People?” by Joshua Rozenberg
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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
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind