Book Review
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Her story repeats itself
Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking
The scatalogical subversive
Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep
Rumours of a crime
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a flawed man, but he should be allowed to be condemned by his words
What’s told is news again
Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street
Good-natured amateurishness
British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
When in Romania…
This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader
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
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business