Literature
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted