Books
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
A commanding life
Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius. By Iskander Rehman
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Something has gone very wrong with “human rights”
When the “rights” of foreign sex criminals are being prioritised above the safety of Britons, we need change
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
