Book Review
Sincerely ducking the hard questions
Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life
Rotters, rogues and Champagne moments
This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Scapegoat of a paranoid era
Anne Sebba’s book on Ethel Rosenberg is a towering memorial
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
The making of a maelstrom
How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain
“We did everything we could”
This book offers an insider’s account of the extraordinary (in)decision-making among Johnson’s team during the most tumultuous year in modern history
Faustian bargains of the review world
Jeremy Black delves into a history book which disappoints and a biography not to be missed
Riffing on the poetic tradition
William Poulos says that in his wisdom and readability, Llewelyn Morgan serves his subject well
Hartlepool and the dignity of Labour
After losing Hartlepool to the Conservatives, the Labour Party would do well to take heed of Jon Cruddas’s new book
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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
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
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone