Book Review
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
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
Most Read
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
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer