Book Review
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
One of these books is worth reading …
Their rhetoric is unhinged, yet still they preen
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
A.S. Byatt and the follies of magical progressivism
The late novelist understood the dangers of ego-centred delusions
Moving tribute to a richer time
On one tumultuous day, eleven men in strawberry-jam shirts wore crowns
A history of the world set in stone
Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves
The objectification of Britney Spears
The Women in Me is a powerful and disturbing perspective on misogyny
Just a little note to say “I hate you”
Poisoned pens pierce the veil of sociable living
Why a great artist stopped painting
Even Dürer was probably a little surprised
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
