Books
The Steiner of nether edge
Michael Henderson reviews A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher and Here We Are by Graham Swift
Know your Catalan onions
Gerald Frost reviews Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity by Venetia Johannes
The feminist case for Jordan Peterson
I came to mock the Canadian guru but stayed to respect the depth of his thought
There’s no need to shout
Patrick West reviews You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
A plague of words
Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?
The implied fascist
Roland Elliott Brown reviews How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia
Antiquarian enterprises
The highs and lows of antiquarian bookselling
True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade
Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill
Eat more meat!
Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Intangible benefits for intangible heritage?
It remains to be seen whether the UK’s Ratification of UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be valuable
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
