Book Review
Egypt’s secret Nazi brains trust
After a humiliating defeat in the war over Israel, the Egyptians wanted revenge
The feud that felled the Roman Republic
The personal differences between Caesar and Cato mattered
New tunes from a hatful of old songs
We approach Dylan’s both peerless and wildly uneven catalogue only through the after-image of his dazzling prime
Exploding the Anglosphere Dream
Is canzuk revivalism scary enough to need book-length refutation?
Murders for December
From Sweden to Bombay
The pontiff who looked the other way
David Kertzer unearths dramatic evidence from recently-released Vatican files
The blue blazer
Liz Truss’s story is a salutary tale
Puncturing Putin’s dangerous myths
Everyone reveres WWII myths — but the cult of the Great Patriotic War defines modern Russia
Defending women’s spaces, again
An essential book that should not have had to be written
De-educating Britain
Peter Hitchens’ new book details how the destruction of grammar schools has betrayed children from modest backgrounds
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
