Books
The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
Murders for September
Past and future killings
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
Confusing populism with tyranny
Gideon Rachman fails to distinguish the strong from those who pretend to be
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Present-day lessons from past masters
Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
