Book Review
Life in the press gang
A scattergun memoir with the decline of newspapers as gloomy backdrop
The end of the schtick
The Last Jewish Joke by Michel Wieviorka
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?
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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
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
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
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?