Book Review
Timeless temples of the written word
Oxford Libraries: Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack and Dan Paton
Old-fashioned history
Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr
Writing the first draft of history
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren
Why magic replaced God for millennials
Has religion gone the way of the typewriter?
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future