Essays
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
