Books
Time to ask “But what about the children?”
Not talking about the facts is counterproductive
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
A masquerade of Rawlsian liberalism
An interesting but unconvincing Rawlsian case for socialism
One of these books is worth reading …
Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
A.S. Byatt and the follies of magical progressivism
The late novelist understood the dangers of ego-centred delusions
Moving tribute to a richer time
On one tumultuous day, eleven men in strawberry-jam shirts wore crowns
A history of the world set in stone
Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves
The objectification of Britney Spears
The Women in Me is a powerful and disturbing perspective on misogyny
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
