Books
Writing the first draft of history
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren
Why magic replaced God for millennials
Has religion gone the way of the typewriter?
The court that stops us speaking our mind
Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights by Natalie Alkiviadou
Was the Maginot line really such a failure?
A new book rehabilitates a linear symbol of French defeat
A too-short history of Islam
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present by John Tolan
The seductive call of risk
Uncertain times attract reckless investors
A saga of survival
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City that Defied Hitler by Sinclair McKay
Feminism’s search for the perfect woman
On two biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft
The man who knew, but could not do
Zbigniew Brzezinski recognised his enemies, and by his manner created plenty more
The best-laid plans
A decade-old novel is worth reconsidering for how it addresses the questions of modernity
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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
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori