Books
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
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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
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses