Books
No place for idealists
A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias
The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Right Royal Rubbish
The new Meghan and Harry book is full of sycophantic trivia, almost as if it came from the horse’s mouth
People Need Borders
Louise Perry reviews Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries, by Frank Furedi
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
