Books
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
Anarchy in the UK
Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England