Book Review
Exploding the Anglosphere Dream
Is canzuk revivalism scary enough to need book-length refutation?
Murders for December
From Sweden to Bombay
The pontiff who looked the other way
David Kertzer unearths dramatic evidence from recently-released Vatican files
The blue blazer
Liz Truss’s story is a salutary tale
Puncturing Putin’s dangerous myths
Everyone reveres WWII myths — but the cult of the Great Patriotic War defines modern Russia
Defending women’s spaces, again
An essential book that should not have had to be written
De-educating Britain
Peter Hitchens’ new book details how the destruction of grammar schools has betrayed children from modest backgrounds
Missing the point on lockdown
A new book on civil liberties and the pandemic is bogged down by petty proceduralism
Let’s be Frankl
The importance of meaning
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
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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
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm