Book Review
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
The big state heir to Blair
James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
PAYE makes the world go round
Jamie Blackett reviews Daylight Robbery by Dominic Frisby
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
