Book Review
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
A labour of love
We are all historians of our own here and now
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
