Book Review
Advocates who brook no dissent
Narcissistic identity politics perpetuates that other people are dangerous things that require controlling by activists who “get it”
Lessons from life
How the facts of Hannah Arendt’s life read like fiction
The satisfaction of small pleasures
The most anticipated book of the year, a Booker Prize nominee and a posthumous release: John Self on three new, big releases this month
Out of the blue
Despite some political hang-ups, James Fox provides diverting stories on the history of colour
Beating a dead narrative
Yet another teacher memoir abuses more clichés
A drawing is worth a thousand photographs
This collection of measured drawings recovers the backbone of architectural education
Architectural historian against the world
John Martin Robinson’s second memoir pulls no punches against the cult of Modernism
The millennial’s guide to feminism
Julie Bindel’s new book rescues modern feminism from its failings
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
A fully-packed bookcase
Three books that each offer a traditional holiday-reading pleasure
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback