Book Review
Inescapable crisis
Have our worn-out imaginations reached their limits?
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
Strongholds and strong women
Three non-fiction works beat out the general mediocrity of 2022
Standing tall on an uncluttered horizon
The best new fiction of 2022
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
Anglican age of a thousand churches
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change
Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people
Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing
A magisterial study of war and strategy
Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Britain’s archipelago of shame
The UK’s treatment of Chagossians doesn’t amount to a crime against humanity
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
