Book Review
Template for technocrats
Nudge taught a generation of experts how to manipulate the public, free from scrutiny
Lover, muse, artist
The aim of this new biography is to re-establish this undeservedly overlooked artist
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
A tale of two Keirs
Keir Starmer lacks the star-power to become Prime Minister
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
Murders for August
What masterpieces hide on tired and musty shelves?
The veneration of Saint Jacinda
Ardern’s career is a foretaste of a quieter and less frightening world in which workplace feminism has triumphed
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Beating the wrong drum
The dogmatic insistence that unionists are being pushed towards a united Ireland
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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
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense