Book Review
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
Censorious sadism
We are never far away from abuse and ostracism
Taking the clown seriously
Jolyon Maugham’s prose is funny, but his ideas are dangerous
Old Man River
For centuries, the Po has been the lifeblood of Northern Italy
Killing and kissing
An engaging account of sex in wartime
In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
Show me the money
Why do authors so often have such difficulty extracting the fees they are owed?
When nationalism was woke
After the events of 1848, Europe was never the same again
The other one
How Edward VIII threatened the royal family
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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
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre