Adam Sutcliffe
No place for idealists
A highly informative history of ideas let down by a drumbeat of liberal bias
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
