I yield to none in my admiration for Professor Roger Scruton. What Brains! And, as the Pimpernel of Prague, what courage! And I quite understand why he has written this fictionalised version of ...

Academic critics of Dryden or Pope were not in the habit, the last time I checked, of interspersing their monographs with reminiscences of sex clubs in Manhattan. An affectionate excursus on that ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. ‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in ...

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‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.’ @bricksilk on the Spycatcher affair. David Anderson - ...

‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.’ @bricksilk on the Spycatcher affair. David Anderson - ...

There is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of the competition between the ...

Ring Down the Curtain - The Critic by Anand Tucker (dir) ...

The eighteenth book in Patrick O’Brian’s great naval series more than maintains the standards he has set himself. There is no falling-off, no self-indulgence. That is all O’Brian fans need to know; ...

Yours Shamelessly - Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes (Translated from French by Frank Wynne) ...

Medieval documents – both books and individual documents, such as charters – survive in remarkable quantities. Neil Ker’s Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, which gives details about holdings ...

In late 2022, at the G20 summit held at a balmy resort in Bali, Indonesia, the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, ...