Book Review
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
Searching for a radical alternative
Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament
A massacre of straw men
Kehinde Andrews is not a serious reviewer
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
A stirring tale of delicious complexity
From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks
Unstable foundations
The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque
Murders for August
Classics resurrected and new bodies laid to rest
Why central Europe has always mattered
Globalism is nothing new
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 2)
Bad science is hard to swallow
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 1)
The ultra-processed food scare is a backwards step for science
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
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism