Book Review
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
Revolutionary faith
Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution
Nostalgic fantasies of the British Raj
Shattered Lands: Five
Partitions and the Making of Modern
Asia by Sam Dalrymple; e Indian
Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the
Billionaire Prince by Imran Mulla
The beginning of the end of the end of history
How the nineties helped to build the modern world
Pollyannaish study is a missed opportunity
Being Victorian: How it Felt Then, Why it Matters Now by Jamie Camplin
An elegant advocate for Van the man
John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture by Charles Saumarez Smith
A populist wake-up call for centrists
The Great Realignment: Why the New Right is Here to Stay by Stephen Davies
The word from Britain’s streets
Patrick Galbraith fears for the health of an old friend
How to live better
Prosperity through Growth: Boosting Living Standards in
an Age of Autocracy and AI
Most Read
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
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.