Book Review
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
Murders for August
Locked rooms and dark churchyards
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
Frustrating life of a man of ideas
We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story
Preaching the gospel of progressivism
Make the monarchy a spiritual vacuum, and it will soon be filled with nihilism
The real benefits of loyalty and order
Evocation of a more hopeful culture lost is both the book’s strength and weakness
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
Busting the myth of the Phantom Major
Thread by thread, Mortimer unpicks the lies of David Stirling’s life
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book