Book Review
Soon to be pulped non-fiction
Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment
Secret sex lives in Victorian England
Prepare to fall in like with three new books
Seldon’s way
Pioneering a path to redemption
An anaconda in the chandelier?
Benedict Rogers’ new book maps the vast network of repression propped up by China’s regime
Monetarily woke
A new book by Stefan Eich debunks the political neutrality of money
Against history snobs
Al Murray proves himself to be more than a popular historian
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
Inescapable crisis
Have our worn-out imaginations reached their limits?
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
Strongholds and strong women
Three non-fiction works beat out the general mediocrity of 2022
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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
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub