Books
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here