Book Review
Pyramids for piggies and Gothic privies
Mixed in with the whimsical, the eccentric and the downright weird, there are masterpieces
Murders for April
Dark academia and classic hollywood horror
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
Forgettable history of forgotten music
These four composers deserve to be remembered without exaggeration in service of social revanchism
England’s polymath of the piano
Greatness does not always declare itself in torrents of Slavic emotion or Germanic intellectualism
Lifting the mask of a mercurial master
Soden shares the spoils of untrammelled access: vivid evidence of the man not seen
The angst of Eros
Debating porn over the decades
In search of social justice for women
Two incisive and thought-provoking books explore how society deals with infertile women
The bats have left the bell tower
What happened to goths?
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan