Books
A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books
Give us more judgement, more opinions and more criticism
Leading by tantrum
Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
Masterful tombstone for a tudor bruiser
Hannah Betts reviews The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
Why populism is popular
Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
