Book Review
Can our duties set us free?
Jacob Phillips’ new book challenges the assumption that freedom lies in unconstraint
A bitter brew from darkest Peru
Iain Sinclair on the trail of his Victorian ancestor
In Darwin’s dreamland
A two-year stint on an island in Lake Victoria makes for a poignant and memorable memoir
Murders for March
Parties and post boxes make beguiling settings for this month’s mysteries
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
Smashed stereotypes or revisionist reveries?
Why judge prohibitionists by their words when we can judge them by their actions?
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
When bad reviews attack
Book reviews are not the preserve of the literary dilettantes — they have real power
Golden boy turned starstruck rube
The self-justifying self-portrait of a journalist who never made it
On and off the road
Jack Kerouac’s reputation should rest on his whole oeuvre — not just his most famous novel
Most Read
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
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
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
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order