Books
The art of brotherly rivalry
Two artists shaped by differing attitudes to modernity
A college call to arms
How to fix the educational decline brought through conformity to EDI agendas
Michelangelo and all that
A well-informed and surprisingly readable book
Talk is deep
Thought as a social process rather than a private mental activity
Young Winston: seizing the day
The life before his and our finest hour
The art of experience
The great German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich deserves more attention
Losing our religion?
Britain’s moral framework is neither pagan, nor Christian any longer
A writer unsure who he wanted to be
Emile Zola: A Determined Life by Robert Lethbridge; Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life by Rachel Bowlby
Free thinking
Is true liberty a matter of independence or non-interference?
The tragedy of Mark Field
This is a book with an identity crisis to match that of the Conservatives
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
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do