Book Review
Is the future bright?
We are in a revolutionary era
Mad, genius?
A new book attempts to untangle a right-wing mystery
Turning a blind eye to the migration problem
Those with power and public influence are reluctant to confront anything but symptoms
Signposts of the sacred and mundane
What would it have been like to worship in parish churches in the Middle Ages?
The misunderstood satirist of sin
In the minds of many, this book threatened to undermine and destabilise the moral order
Against literary Anglophobia
Julian Barnes appears keen to deconstruct the nation that made him famous
Murders for April
The air is lighter and warmer, but Jeremy Black’s reading is as dark as ever
Country houses and the longing for home
A new book illuminates what British Jews have brought to a rich architectural tradition
A mysterious garden
A new book offers interesting insights into the neglected subject of fraternal societies
Walking the wild side of Merrie England
Revived folk customs are proud expressions of local identity and communal cohesion
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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
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them