Book Review
Finding faith
Peterson spends great time and care examining a cornucopia of Biblical stories
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections