Book Review
Ancient wisdom, modern foolishness
We learn more about the decline of philosophy in our time than about its rise in antiquity
What went wrong with Peter Foster?
A lazy series of talking points for Remainers
Tough crowd, tough man
What has Graham Linehan learned about television and trangenderism?
Murders for October
Edinburgh, exploitation and epicurean excess
How siege warfare returned
Dark histories offer insight into our dark present
How to fix Brexit
A flawed book by a Remainer may offer a crucial answer
A sunny depiction of dark times
Unlike so many, Heffer likes his fellow countrymen and countrywomen
Sparkling sweep of the turbulent south
A new history beautifully distils revolutionary cultures in post-Napoleonic Europe
The layers of ancient Rome
Emperors existed at the intersection of many seeming incompatibilities
Searching for sense amid chaos
What makes Traditionalism controversial and alien is also what makes it important
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Pretending obligatory is “voluntary”
There is no better way to destroy people’s independence and probity
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Why violence is political
Attempts to de-politicise the murder of Anne Widdecombe will fail
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished