Book Review
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
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
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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
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle