Books
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
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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
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think