Book Review
A history of the world set in stone
Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves
The objectification of Britney Spears
The Women in Me is a powerful and disturbing perspective on misogyny
Just a little note to say “I hate you”
Poisoned pens pierce the veil of sociable living
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
Restoring the numinous
The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills
Murders for November
Killings amid the crunch of leaves
Academic dynamite
An important, if difficult, contribution to debates around sex and gender
God is in the details even of secular history
The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion
A Boy’s Own book of anti-colonialism
Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?
Fighting back against the IRA mob
Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave
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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
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
To infinity immigration and beyond
Soaring rates of citizenship applications show no signs of slowing down
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms