Books
Life in the press gang
A scattergun memoir with the decline of newspapers as gloomy backdrop
The end of the schtick
The Last Jewish Joke by Michel Wieviorka
It’s no Globe
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
Getting Christianity wrong
Alice Roberts misunderstands Christianity and its success
Durrell dissected
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 by Michael Haag
Controversial claims to genius
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
Murders for September
The best and worst crime fiction for September
Timeless temples of the written word
Oxford Libraries: Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack and Dan Paton
How the first culture war ended
The Whig vs Tory battle was resolved through pragmatism and compromise
Old-fashioned history
Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr
Most Read
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
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf