Books
Murders for December
Crime fiction to chill you this Christmas
History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda
Alice Roberts distorts her material by an excessive and indiscriminately applied hermeneutic of suspicion
We need better Christians and better democracy
Religion need not improve our politics but it can
Debuts, comebacks and suprises
There are plenty of dead bodies here, but no dead air
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Deeply erudite yet highly readable, laying many myths to rest
Fundamentally ahistorical
History is not just a data set for the present
Have we got alcoholism wrong?
A new book contends that our approach to alcohol addiction can be irrational and unhelpful
Signal failure
An inside account of the HS2 raises worrying questions about our government’s capacity to build infrastructure
Suffering: the consequences
Dual reflections on on the vicissitudes of victim status
Strong, silent — but still box office gold
Clint Eastwood is as much a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon
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
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge