Books
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
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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 problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress