1920s
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
Joseph Roth’s golden twenties
When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
