Annette
Sparks of Life
The end of the Sparks brothers’ career matches the intensity and originality of its beginning
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
