Books
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
Wrestling with recovery
There is no binary between sickness and health
Back door diplomacy
A fine history of Operation Chiffon
The preserve of the forelock-tuggers
Modern Buildings in Britain offers an encyclopaedia of potential future losses
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Playing it by the book
Are books as physical objects already obsolescent?
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
