Books
Leading by tantrum
Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
Masterful tombstone for a tudor bruiser
Hannah Betts reviews The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
The twin prophets of pessimism
The novelist and the philosopher linked by a common fascination with despair
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
Why populism is popular
Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind
Party people
Corbyn knows the crowd-pleasers, but can he play to a wider audience?
Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?
Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip
Building Scrutopia
Sir Roger Scruton and the architectural establishment
The real tragedy of Ayers Rock
The ban on climbing Australia’s most famous landmark will do nothing to help the Aborigines it purports to protect
God’s comeback
The Church of England has found God again
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt