Books
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Common dream themes cut across vast differences in the waking lives of humans
Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
States of uncertainty
How should we define “Central Europe?”
How to halt the continental drift
Where has “Europe” come from over the past 30 years and where is it heading?
Waste product
Far from presenting us with the future of the internet, Enshittification prolongs its squalid past
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering
The great divide
The party divide gave voice to incompatibly different visions of national destiny
The folly of self-flagellation
An older, patriotic multiculturalism has curdled in recent years
A man adrift
Flesh, by David Szalay, is not radically masculine but quietly humanist
Most Read
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 RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
We need a pro-natal culture
Changing our demographic future will require a new attitude towards having children
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era