Book Review
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
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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
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh