Books
Behind bars, among stars
Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain
The riddle of Brexit’s ruthless survivor
Michael Crick casts Farage as an almost vampiric figure, draining the life from others to sustain his decades of dominance
Just a pill?
How psychiatry pathologises female experience
Delivering a monstrous injustice
It’s enough to make you go postal
Why modern novels are so boring
Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
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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
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
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
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give