Books
Welcome returns for three Irish writers
Why is the publishing industry so obsessed with debuts?
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Who actually got Brexit done?
Mark Francois’s Brexit book is a timely corrective to the Cummings narrative
Can our duties set us free?
Jacob Phillips’ new book challenges the assumption that freedom lies in unconstraint
A bitter brew from darkest Peru
Iain Sinclair on the trail of his Victorian ancestor
In Darwin’s dreamland
A two-year stint on an island in Lake Victoria makes for a poignant and memorable memoir
A vivid chronicle of chroniclers
Richard Cohen’s history of histories is a gargantuan achievement
Murders for March
Parties and post boxes make beguiling settings for this month’s mysteries
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
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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
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
We need a pro-natal culture
Changing our demographic future will require a new attitude towards having children
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable