Book Review
Britain’s little Hitlers
Richard Griffiths reviews Failed Führers, by Graham Macklin
Spuds with everything
Potatoes were hyped as the key to a well-nourished populace by the European intelligentsia in the 1700s
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
“I am a total act” (but a second act?)
John Bowers reviews A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
Criminal insanity
Nigel Biggar reviews Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, by John Lloyd
Mass-goer who glorified mass production
Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
The big state heir to Blair
James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
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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
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it