Book Review
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
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
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair