Book Review
Against inhumane architecture
A new book deconstructs nihilistic pretensions of intellectuals
Cutting Edge
A new novel brilliantly skewers gender theory
The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
Will TikTok take to Tocqueville?
Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun
An island to admire
A new book takes a valuable tour of the Isle of Man
The medieval shock of the new
Changes in the early modern period forced people to look at themselves anew
Unpacking an economic titan
Hayek was not, and always insisted that he was not, a laissez-faire economist
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
The North Riding, rediscovered
A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
