Wartime Britain
Murders for August
Locked rooms and dark churchyards
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Rumourmongering in times of crisis
Nigel Jones compares the power of rumours in Wartime Britain with the fake news afflictions of our Covid-stricken society
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
