Book Review
The seductive call of risk
Uncertain times attract reckless investors
A saga of survival
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City that Defied Hitler by Sinclair McKay
Arrest this high priest of hate
The End of Woke is ignorant, offensive, and I have no intention of reading it
Elegy for a lost world
Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer
Nourishing the human soul
Nigel Anderson is an architect worth celebrating
Murders for August
A massive melange of murder mysteries
Why conservatives should read more fiction
Conservatism can be fun and imaginative as well as insightful
Poet, artist, tantric Christian
William Blake opposed the dreary image of the God of reason via a “reexpanded imagination”
It is right to question psychiatry
A new book makes a brave attempt to confront the abuses of psychiatric treatment
What nation, whose interests?
The struggle for “democratisation” might achieve the opposite of its apparent aims
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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
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z