Books
Mad, genius?
A new book attempts to untangle a right-wing mystery
Who are the household names now?
Cultural fragmentation has led to a decline in shared knowledge
The tragedy of Mark Field
This is a book with an identity crisis to match that of the Conservatives
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
A mysterious garden
A new book offers interesting insights into the neglected subject of fraternal societies
It’s the phones, stupid
How can we help books to compete with YouTube and Instagram?
How I was hounded out of publishing
A culture of groupthink and ostracisation must be challenged
Glorious things
This addition to the literature on monuments and commemoration is very welcome
Dark clouds
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The disappeared and the damned
A reflection on Roger Scruton’s neglected “grooming gangs” novel
Most Read
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord