Book Review
Misguided mission to explain
How can James Payne teach us how to use our eyes when he shies away from stating visible truths?
States of uncertainty
How should we define “Central Europe?”
How to halt the continental drift
Where has “Europe” come from over the past 30 years and where is it heading?
Waste product
Far from presenting us with the future of the internet, Enshittification prolongs its squalid past
Bogged down in intellectual foppery
The post-liberalism movement has so far undertaken little more than ideological bickering
The folly of self-flagellation
An older, patriotic multiculturalism has curdled in recent years
History hamstrung by anti-Christian agenda
Alice Roberts distorts her material by an excessive and indiscriminately applied hermeneutic of suspicion
We need better Christians and better democracy
Religion need not improve our politics but it can
Fundamentally ahistorical
History is not just a data set for the present
Have we got alcoholism wrong?
A new book contends that our approach to alcohol addiction can be irrational and unhelpful
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming