Books
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
West British landscapes
Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
Insight of a prolix pluralist
Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
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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
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind