Book Review
How to halt the continental drift
Where has “Europe” come from over the past 30 years and where is it heading?
Waste product
Far from presenting us with the future of the internet, Enshittification prolongs its squalid past
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering
The folly of self-flagellation
An older, patriotic multiculturalism has curdled in recent years
History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda
Alice Roberts distorts her material by an excessive and indiscriminately applied hermeneutic of suspicion
We need better Christians and better democracy
Religion need not improve our politics but it can
Fundamentally ahistorical
History is not just a data set for the present
Have we got alcoholism wrong?
A new book contends that our approach to alcohol addiction can be irrational and unhelpful
Signal failure
An inside account of the HS2 raises worrying questions about our government’s capacity to build infrastructure
Suffering: the consequences
Dual reflections on on the vicissitudes of victim status
Most Read
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
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration