Book Review
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
Bringing the Bacchae to the bush
Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues