Book Review
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel
Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism
Anatomy of a miserable deal
Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Murders for early June
Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Debutant novels and great expectations
John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
