Book Review
More than merely a magician with words
The poetry of Tennyson is no gorgeous trick of words, no siren song
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
No art form is more subtle, more visceral, more preposterous and more life-affirming than opera
A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Common dream themes cut across vast differences in the waking lives of humans
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
Most Read
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
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated