Book Review
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
The meaning of Locke
A new book explores the English philosopher’s American afterlife
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
Tabloid fiction
A new book on journalism gets it wrong
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
Murders for February
Gripping books and the promise of another
Many lives of the first everywoman
Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise
The soul of Swedes
On the contested state of Swedish cultural identity
Liar, crook and Hollywood great
For all Cimino’s flaws, there was still “the vision thing”
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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
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
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
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.