Book Review
Delivering a monstrous injustice
It’s enough to make you go postal
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
