Books
Potatoes, pigs and peat
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine
The hilarious return of the campus novel
For its first two hundred pages, I read Shibboleth with jaw agape
Murders for June
The longer days can be just as dark
Betting on hedges
In nature, everything is connected, and nothing is simple
An unconvincing case for Israel
Murray always seem to frame the facts in a manner that is maximally sympathetic to Israel
The lines that moved the world
How railway maps transformed travel, trade and time
Reflections on the rubble of the ancients
An enthusiasm for ruins is far from universal
A spiritual coming out
Rod Dreher’s “woo book” is a book the modern world needed
Troupers’ crime club
Story of a Murder seeks to shift the focus from the killer to the victim: his wife
Women deserve better histories
An excess of intersectional ideology obscures the real challenges of womanhood
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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 memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori