Book Review
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Medieval treasures of Germany
Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
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
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
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
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform