History
Why they rebel…
J. C. D. Clark delves into Extinction Rebellion’s new pamphlet in search of something more
A one-sided view of history that neuters parliament
Brexiteers are right: parliamentary sovereignty is inextricably linked with national sovereignty
American psychos
Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
Captain courageous
Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer
He was right all along
Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel
P is for Plum Pudding
Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
We didn’t want to be poor no more
Growing up in the Eighties was a story of aspiration — and anxiety
Inveterate ignoramus
Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
