Book Review
Murders for October
Brazil in the 1930s, France in the 1940s and Britain in the 1950s
The inside story of how Brexit got done
Not a Great Man telling of history, but a tapestry of characters
What has Brexit done for us?
A lot more than Remainers would be willing to admit
Eurocentric view of an American giant
The author and people like him see every problem as justifying “more Europe”
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
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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
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option