Book Review
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
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks