Book Review
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
PAYE makes the world go round
Jamie Blackett reviews Daylight Robbery by Dominic Frisby
Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen
Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
Picturing Colonial Africa
Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary
Of mice and writing advice
Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
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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
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war