Book Review
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
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
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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
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws