Book Review
Stability and sensibility
Art between the wars
The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
Confusing populism with tyranny
Gideon Rachman fails to distinguish the strong from those who pretend to be
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
The Boy who never grew old
Eric Ravilious’s ethereal watercolours chime with today’s sensibilities
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
