Gertrude Himmelfarb
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
