Books
Murders for late June
From midnight Parisian walks and femmes fatales to jazz and corruption, Jeremy Black rounds up the best murders
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel
Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism
Anatomy of a miserable deal
Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
The calamitous course of history
Reading Doom might not save us, but it leaves us with a better appreciation of the complex politics of catastrophe
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
Independent minds
Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work
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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
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone