Books
Confessions of the new Grub Street
The money is bad, the hours long and the white wine copious and cheap
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’
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
