Book Review
How speech flowered from an ancient root
Connective tissue between Classical Western and Indian languages
A clean-up job for bullshit politics
A case against “TERFs” uses interesting research in the service of the absurd
A heap of broken images
A new book finds some clarity in our unstable world
Potatoes, pigs and peat
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine
Betting on hedges
In nature, everything is connected, and nothing is simple
Reflections on the rubble of the ancients
An enthusiasm for ruins is far from universal
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
Most Read
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
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion