Books
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
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
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
