The Bloomsbury Group
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
