Book Review
A persuasive critique of identity politics
Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us by
Marie Kawthar Daouda
The accidental case against assisted dying
Rabbi Jonathan Romain undermines the argument that he is trying to make
Alpine lyricism
Each day mimics the last, ending in a mountain refuge Holy Trinity of soup, fire and bed
The movies’ maestro
Hollywood’s most well-known tunesmith now has a doorstopper biography
More than merely a magician with words
The poetry of Tennyson is no gorgeous trick of words, no siren song
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
No art form is more subtle, more visceral, more preposterous and more life-affirming than opera
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Common dream themes cut across vast differences in the waking lives of humans
Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
States of uncertainty
How should we define “Central Europe?”
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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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
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