Books
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Selina Todd reviews Female Husbands, by Jen Manion
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?