Book Review
It’s no Globe
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
Getting Christianity wrong
Alice Roberts misunderstands Christianity and its success
Durrell dissected
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 by Michael Haag
Controversial claims to genius
The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
Timeless temples of the written word
Oxford Libraries: Architecture by Geoffrey Tyack and Dan Paton
Old-fashioned history
Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr
Writing the first draft of history
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren
Why magic replaced God for millennials
Has religion gone the way of the typewriter?
The court that stops us speaking our mind
Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights by Natalie Alkiviadou
A too-short history of Islam
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present by John Tolan
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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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all