Columns
Reading for the bar
Courtroom memoirs reveal fascinating details of high-profile cases, waspish views of politicians, as well as a QC who solved a notorious murder
The real rogue state
Wherever the outrage is about the success of Sinn Fein, there hasn’t been a word from Brussels
The problem of the poor…
Titania McGrath’s considers the working class
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
A year to forget, already
Who will stand up to the stupidity of the electorate?
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker