Book Reviewing
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
