Book Review
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
