Book Review
Who will stand up for “the West”?
An illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values
A man of Rome, out of Africa
The Bishop of Hippo and his circle brought to full life and colour
Vive la difference
Human reproduction remains unique in the animal kingdom in the intensity of care demanded
A fascinating record of a vanished world
The delight of the diaristic form is seeing through another’s perspective
Murders for October
Brazil in the 1930s, France in the 1940s and Britain in the 1950s
The inside story of how Brexit got done
Not a Great Man telling of history, but a tapestry of characters
What has Brexit done for us?
A lot more than Remainers would be willing to admit
Eurocentric view of an American giant
The author and people like him see every problem as justifying “more Europe”
Life in the press gang
A scattergun memoir with the decline of newspapers as gloomy backdrop
The end of the schtick
The Last Jewish Joke by Michel Wieviorka
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 chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
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
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK