Books
Murders for September
Past and future killings
Why do we like Larkin so much?
On a love with limits
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Wartime hallelujah
Creativity amid conflict
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
Walking the path of the stupidly rich
Serious Money tracks the excesses and indulgences of those with wealth to burn
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Let’s at least agree rape is wrong
Fundamental feminist theories are under attack from within feminism itself
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
