Books
The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan
Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Smugly bugged by Brexit
Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’
Ghostly good taste
Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
