Politics
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Squalid optimist
The PM’s mendacity about the sunlit uplands of New Model Britain is psychotic
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
Speaking power to truth
Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Spartans who remade Britain
If the Spartans had voted for May’s deal, Brussels and Corbyn would have been in control
The political disruptor
Jon Moynihan: The flamboyant businessman who played a key role in Brexit
From feral beasts to pussycats
A Lobby made man on the decline of the parliamentary press from feared newsbreakers to humdrum hacks
A year to forget, already
Who will stand up to the stupidity of the electorate?
A philosopher of deeds
Roger Scruton was a doer as well as a thinker
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
