Books
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
