Book Review
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”
It is right to question psychiatry
A new book makes a brave attempt to confront the abuses of psychiatric treatment
What nation, whose interests?
The struggle for “democratisation” might achieve the opposite of its apparent aims
The SW1nderland gang
Sarah Vine’s memoir is a revealing and readable portrait of a Conservative political elite
Trapped in an identity crisis
The invention of identity is both a tragic and a universal story
The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
Keeping music alive during the Blitz
Pianist Myra Hess brought classical music to the rubble of wartime London
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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
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived