Books
Buried trésor
Wherever French see merde, there’s someone over the Manche to appreciate a picturesque glitter
The tangled roots of the Third Reich
Almost everybody found it easier to disengage from what was happening
A teenager, strangers and a pair of apes
Spend time inside the mind of your most eccentric, sometimes maddening friend
Spare us the wagging finger
Few things are more tedious than books moralising about the deficiencies of yesteryear
Meeting the masses
With scant audiences and paltry remuneration, author’s tours can be far from glamorous
Ancient wisdom, modern foolishness
We learn more about the decline of philosophy in our time than about its rise in antiquity
What went wrong with Peter Foster?
A lazy series of talking points for Remainers
Tough crowd, tough man
What has Graham Linehan learned about television and trangenderism?
Murders for October
Edinburgh, exploitation and epicurean excess
How siege warfare returned
Dark histories offer insight into our dark present
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth