Book Review
The Spy, the Scholar and the British Academy
David Cannadine’s thoughtful commentary of the Anthony Blunt affair utilises previously unpublished sources
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
White Supremacists: Anti-racists need you!
Ewa Dymek & Mateusz Dymek review Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
Saved for posterity
John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company