Books

American idealists in hell

Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith

The unhappy iconoclast of the Right

J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton

Triumph of the horrible game

Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt

Riotous tale of a vivid life, superbly lived

Alexander Larman reviews Lady in Waiting: My extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown, by Anne Glenconner

Can hurt feelings trump free speech?

Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer

Speaking power to truth

Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power

Feminism for the few

Ella Whelan reviews Women vs Capitalism by Vicky Pryce

Vinous Valhalla

David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine

Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers

Charles Moore’s multi-volume biography of Thatcher harks back to an ancient tradition

Inside Number 10

Jack Brown showcases hidden heroes, the history of the building and the famous figures who have passed through