Books
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Murders for the New Year
From Oxford to Italy, the murders continue in 2024
The bad old days
The “golden years” of publishing were characterised by booze, bullying and amateurishness
A land of delectable paradoxes
How H.V. Morton deepened and enriched British perceptions of Wales
Tales of Gallipoli
New books keep history alive, as it should be
A masquerade of Rawlsian liberalism
An interesting but unconvincing Rawlsian case for socialism
First-night nerves
Books, beaches and a beloved bullet
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
Lewis the prophet
The Narnia author deserves to be remembered as a seer and a sage
Meeting the masses
With scant audiences and paltry remuneration, author’s tours can be far from glamorous
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
The Saad facts
A spirited but disappointing screed against wokeness
