Book Review
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
When nationalism was woke
After the events of 1848, Europe was never the same again
The other one
How Edward VIII threatened the royal family
Casting light in dark corners
No other historian can provide a better introduction to a big subject
The Whig view of Spanish history
For left-wing author Giles Tremlett, concord is the telos of Spain’s history — on the left’s terms, that is
Pyramids for piggies and Gothic privies
Mixed in with the whimsical, the eccentric and the downright weird, there are masterpieces
Murders for April
Dark academia and classic hollywood horror
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Forgettable history of forgotten music
These four composers deserve to be remembered without exaggeration in service of social revanchism
England’s polymath of the piano
Greatness does not always declare itself in torrents of Slavic emotion or Germanic intellectualism
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
