Book Review
The riddle of Brexit’s ruthless survivor
Michael Crick casts Farage as an almost vampiric figure, draining the life from others to sustain his decades of dominance
Delivering a monstrous injustice
It’s enough to make you go postal
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option