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