Book Review
Empire by way of Europe
A new book places the quest to keep Algeria French squarely at the centre of European integration
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe
The man who tamed the Russian bear
Statesmen confronted a stupefying cacophony of crises in the 1980s
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
Rebadging the past as feel-good therapy
The discipline faces not so much a crisis of history, as a crisis of historicism
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
The roots of U.S. support for Israel
Walter Russell Mead offers a counterblast to claims of a pro-Israel lobby influencing US politics
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
