Book Review
The word from Britain’s streets
Patrick Galbraith fears for the health of an old friend
How to live better
Prosperity through Growth: Boosting Living Standards in
an Age of Autocracy and AI
A persuasive critique of identity politics
Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us by
Marie Kawthar Daouda
The accidental case against assisted dying
Rabbi Jonathan Romain undermines the argument that he is trying to make
Alpine lyricism
Each day mimics the last, ending in a mountain refuge Holy Trinity of soup, fire and bed
The movies’ maestro
Hollywood’s most well-known tunesmith now has a doorstopper biography
More than merely a magician with words
The poetry of Tennyson is no gorgeous trick of words, no siren song
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
No art form is more subtle, more visceral, more preposterous and more life-affirming than opera
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Common dream themes cut across vast differences in the waking lives of humans
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill