Book Reviews
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
A non-fictional feast!
The best of military history from 2025
Historiography made exciting
A new book from Richard Davenport-Hines makes history interesting and enjoyable
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Murders for June
Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works