Book Review
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
Confusing populism with tyranny
Gideon Rachman fails to distinguish the strong from those who pretend to be
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
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
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.
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history