Books
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
Murders for June
Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest
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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 EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature