Books
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Civilisation versus barbarism in Kensington and Chelsea
A new book reminds us of the irreplaceable value of our architectural heritage
Murders for August
From killers down under to death across the pond
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
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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
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal