Books
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
Cyber court
Soon, technology will mean the judge and the parties in a legal action can file claims and evidence online
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’
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?