Book Review
Rhodes still stands
Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Dazzled by manias and lured by wild gambling
The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature
Murders for late June
From midnight Parisian walks and femmes fatales to jazz and corruption, Jeremy Black rounds up the best murders
Beast of Las Vegas
The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel
Brave and barmy new worlds
The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism
Anatomy of a miserable deal
Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal
The long arm of the Chekists
This book is an apt metaphor for the state of freedom of speech in modern Britain
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Murders for early June
Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer
Most Read
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
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
Two cafes, both alike …
Our correspondent investigates the north London front of the Israel-Palestine conflict
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration