Books
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
Ghostly good taste
Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Why Britain needs Popular Conservatism
The Conservative Party has not fulfilled the promise of Brexit or overcome the legacy of Blair
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
