Book Review
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future
The woke book of Brexit
Save yourself from ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’ by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson
In defence of knowledge
Richard Ovenden’s new book is a passionate defence of the sanctity of knowledge expressed through literature
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects
Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
No prefix required: how gay writers came of age
Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
Farewell to Utopia
An erudite call to return to a more sceptical and prudential kind of politics
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf