Book Review
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
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous