Book Review
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
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
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
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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
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
From Newton to newts
Putting badgers on the banknotes may avoid controversy, but it also avoids saying anything meaningful about Britain at all
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Worldviews apart
There are disturbing differences between how British Muslims and non-Muslims see the world
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage