Book Review
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
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
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Exiles from the Rainbow nation
Race, land and why white South Africans are leaving their homes behind
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill