Book Review
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Old Man River
For centuries, the Po has been the lifeblood of Northern Italy
Killing and kissing
An engaging account of sex in wartime
In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
When nationalism was woke
After the events of 1848, Europe was never the same again
The other one
How Edward VIII threatened the royal family
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
The Whig view of Spanish history
For left-wing author Giles Tremlett, concord is the telos of Spain’s history — on the left’s terms, that is
Pyramids for piggies and Gothic privies
Mixed in with the whimsical, the eccentric and the downright weird, there are masterpieces
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
A time for restoration
An interview with David Starkey
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
