Book Review
Unflinching view of a fall from grace
If Carrère can be so honest, there is hope for lesser sinners
Names in the frame
All human emotions find their expression on the green baize
Against inhumane architecture
A new book deconstructs nihilistic pretensions of intellectuals
Cutting Edge
A new novel brilliantly skewers gender theory
The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
An island to admire
A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man
The medieval shock of the new
Changes in the early modern period forced people to look at themselves anew
Unpacking an economic titan
Hayek was not, and always insisted that he was not, a laissez-faire economist
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
