Books
The unsettling cant of settler colonial studies
The myth of salvation by means of social justice offers division and despair
The long-gone queens of Grub St
In the good old days, powerful publicity directors could guarantee coverage for books
How not to find God
Lamorna Ash tries to understand Christianity, but falls for the old dogmas
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
Snapshots of a strong and silent type
Amid brands and trends, how do we identify the good stuff?
A mysterious garden
A new book offers interesting insights into the neglected subject of fraternal societies
Thoughts on a crisis
A vision of a salvageable democracy built squarely on an orthodox account of the supremacy of political institutions
The regime that set the stage for Nazism
The question is not about Weimar, but what went wrong with the Germany that preceded it
Treading the path of enlightenment
The spiritual beauty of Plotinus and unity
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
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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 high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author