Section: Review

Total Results: 186


Ultra-reactionary Tories hoped to replace Stanley Baldwin with a dictator. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
11/11/2020 - 12:10am

The Tories against democracy During the last Depression a group of Conservatives seriously considered dictatorship

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday, November 3

03.11

The seductive poison of female ’empowerment’ Could you tell the difference between a sex trafficking cult and a wellness organisation?

Sarah Ditum

Monday, November 2

02.11

How Martin Amis brought Christopher Hitchens back to life In his new book, the novelist doesn't quite capture the full brilliance of his late friend

Douglas Murray

Tuesday, October 27

27.10

Are special advisers just gossiping grifters? A new book about spads fails to justify the existence of this swollen political class

Polly Mackenzie

Monday, October 26

26.10

Humans don’t know how to be happy No self-respecting cat would have written a book like John Gray's new <i>Feline Philosophy</i>

Sam Leith

Friday, October 23

23.10

The creation of Boris Johnson Tom Bower's credulous new biography of the Prime Minister has one great scoop

Tanya Gold

Thursday, October 22

22.10

David Hare can’t bear too much reality The upheavals of our time have left the playwright's new political drama feeling threadbare

Boyd Tonkin

Wednesday, October 21

21.10

Cancel Culture has captured campus Woke ideology has become increasingly powerful and intolerant. But can it be stopped?

Eric Kaufmann

Tuesday, October 20

20.10

America’s establishment still sneers at the Right Four years on, political hacks remain uninterested in why Trump connects with so many voters

Gavin Haynes

Thursday, October 15

15.10

Do men really hate women? The 'manosphere' drips with misogyny but Laura Bates doesn't convincingly explain why

James Bloodworth

Tuesday, October 13

13.10

The moral vacuum at the heart of power The elites only ever look out for number one, as tell-all books by Barbara Amiel and Sasha Swire reveal

Tanya Gold

Friday, October 9

09.10

Would you like endless pleasure? A conflict-free utopia becomes an emotionally sterile dystopia in a new adaptation of Brave New World

Louise Perry