Book Review
Anatomy of a medical scandal
How not thinking can infect a workplace, community or entire culture
The country that went to the wall
From its birth after 1945, to its death after 1990
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks
Wrestling with recovery
There is no binary between sickness and health
Back door diplomacy
A fine history of Operation Chiffon
The preserve of the forelock-tuggers
Modern Buildings in Britain offers an encyclopaedia of potential future losses
Gazing out of the abyss
How to live, in spite of everything
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes