Book Review
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
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
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf