Books
Monetarily woke
A new book by Stefan Eich debunks the political neutrality of money
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
Murders for the New Year
A dark start to 2023
Inescapable crisis
Have our worn-out imaginations reached their limits?
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
Strongholds and strong women
Three non-fiction works beat out the general mediocrity of 2022
Standing tall on an uncluttered horizon
The best new fiction of 2022
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
Anglican age of a thousand churches
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change
Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people
Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
