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13 January 2025
The Cold Truth – Britain’s Grim Winter’s Tale
13 January 2025
by Sallust
Today is the 1,500th anniversary of the death of the Roman writer Boethius, whose great work The Consolation of Philosophy...
Read moreDetailsEven Sally Rooney's usual army of fans are tiring of her hyper-right-on schtick, if the review of her latest novel...
Read moreDetailsPolitics professor James Alexander reviews two recent philosophical attacks on political lying and finds, funnily enough, that it's only lies...
Read moreDetailsProf James Alexander reviews Christopher Beckwith's The Scythian Empire, naming it his book of the year for its thesis that...
Read moreDetails"Of all the books on the COVID-19 years, this one really has the COVID-19 narrative on the ropes." Dr Roger...
Read moreDetails"These days, you expect something like this to be foisting woke gobbledegook on the audience. But no, this adaptation is...
Read moreDetailsDr. Tony Sewell continues to bust the myths of 'racist Britain' in his important new book Black Success, as he...
Read moreDetailsNHS founder Aneurin Bevan was a demagogue typical of the period, says J. Sorel in his review of Nye at...
Read moreDetailsThe new Olivia Coleman film Wicked Little Letters pushes the tired genre of cosy English fiction, in which the loony...
Read moreDetailsBoris Johnson liked to see himself as a modern day Winston Churchill, perhaps no more so than when he imposed...
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