Book Review
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
A literary master of wine
There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book
A flawed blueprint for the Left
How far can the Left’s project succeed without its totemic leader?
The roots of German militarism
Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Art with extra ideology
Not everything has to be about gender
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
The Cockwombible
James Felton’s new book is lazy and bad
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
