Book Review
The court that stops us speaking our mind
Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights by Natalie Alkiviadou
A too-short history of Islam
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present by John Tolan
The seductive call of risk
Uncertain times attract reckless investors
A saga of survival
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City that Defied Hitler by Sinclair McKay
Arrest this high priest of hate
The End of Woke is ignorant, offensive, and I have no intention of reading it
Elegy for a lost world
Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer
Nourishing the human soul
Nigel Anderson is an architect worth celebrating
Murders for August
A massive melange of murder mysteries
Why conservatives should read more fiction
Conservatism can be fun and imaginative as well as insightful
Poet, artist, tantric Christian
William Blake opposed the dreary image of the God of reason via a “reexpanded imagination”
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order