Books
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Fear and favour
Are the police guilty of a “two tier” approach? They are if their own “Police Race Action Plan” is to be believed
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
