Bucha
How do we deal with war crime?
The horrors of Bucha have reminded us that humans are capable of evil on a huge scale
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
