Book Review
The roots of German militarism
Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Art with extra ideology
Not everything has to be about gender
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
Monuments and monstrosities
Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration
The Cockwombible
James Felton’s new book is lazy and bad
Holidays take a pounding
An entertaining new history of British tourism is well timed
Murders for October
A cornucopia of killings
More like a lecture
“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst
A chip on his shoulder
The diaries of Chips Channon
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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
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history