February 19, 2020

The lost world of Left-wing patriotism A new biography of Peter Shore captures a Labour Party man who loved his country

Stephen Pollard

14.02

The unspeakable life of John Bercow In his autobiography, the former speaker reveals himself to be an embittered avatar of ambition

Douglas Murray

12.02

Are we too obsessed with sex? Sex is intellectually tedious and barren, according to the incoherent and reactionary <I>Why Sex Doesn’t Matter</I>

Zoe Strimpel

03.02

Today’s liberals dream of a workerless paradise A new book argues that that both Left and Right are now engaged in class war — against the poor

James Bloodworth

03.02

Why would you demonise Alcoholics Anonymous? Holly Whitaker's book damning the programme is partly ludicrous and wholly cruel

Tanya Gold

24.01

What unites the Nazis and Communists? It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's <i>Life and Fate</i>

Douglas Murray

24.01

What would you sacrifice for integrity? Terrence Malick's new film interrogates a moral dilemma with pernicious modern relevance

James Mumford

23.01

How to argue with a racist Adam Rutherford's new book wrestles with the difficult subject of race and science

Giles Fraser

17.01

1917 pretends good soldiers don’t kill Sam Mendes' epic drips with contemporary sentiment and hackneyed stereotypes

John Lewis-Stempel

10.01

Why Schitt’s Creek is a parable for the good life If you lost everything you ever valued, how would you find meaning?

Libby Emmons

07.01

The poisoning of liberal democracy Ferdinand Mount's <I> The New Few </i> presages a decade destabilised by inequality and incompetent oligarchies

Tanya Gold

03.01

How would you respond to the rise of Nazism? Sebastian Haffner’s powerful 1939 memoir <I>Defying Hitler</i> can help us make sense of current uncertain times

Ian Birrell