Books
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
A commanding life
Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius. By Iskander Rehman
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Most Read
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.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Ring engagement
The Mash meets The Ring!
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes