Book Review
A spiritual coming out
Rod Dreher’s “woo book” is a book the modern world needed
Troupers’ crime club
Story of a Murder seeks to shift the focus from the killer to the victim: his wife
Women deserve better histories
An excess of intersectional ideology obscures the real challenges of womanhood
How not to argue
A new book is an unreliable guide to talking about controversial issues
All the industry crises in one place
The book industry bible gives no hint that there’s an intelligent, informed readership out there
Age of influencers
Central European artists illuminated the national landscape in 1930s Britain
The Nazi hunter
Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer peeled away the official narrative to reveal the Holocaust to his countrymen
How faith built the best of our nation
Every aspect of English national life owes something to Christianity
A fine bromance
We have long since lost any real perspective on The Beatles
Two views of the end of empire
An expert and an exile provide contrasting perspectives on Britain’s mistakes
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling