Books
Head boy and head-scratchers
Come autumn, competing literary establishments parade their best
No country for old men
Publishers get rid of talented editors whose worn faces don’t fit their youth-focused world
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
A literary master of wine
There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book
A flawed blueprint for the Left
How far can the Left’s project succeed without its totemic leader?
The roots of German militarism
Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Art with extra ideology
Not everything has to be about gender
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
