Reviews

"King's was not queer, completely, and Cambridge elsewhere was certainly not as queer as King's." Prof James Alexander reviews Simon...

Never mind smartphones: surely it was the novel that invented mental health problems, suggests Prof James Alexander, as he pays...

What happened to Squid Game? The Korean show broke records in 2021. But the new season spends tedious scenes exploring...

Smoggie Queens shows how far BBC comedy has fallen, says Steven Tucker. Let's be honest, there's only one reason the...

David Starkey is right that Tony Blair and New Labour destroyed the British Constitution and did lasting harm to the...

Dr Andrew Bamji, a retired Consultant Rheumatologist and former President of the British Society for Rheumatology, reviews Norman Fenton and...

Today is the 1,500th anniversary of the death of the Roman writer Boethius, whose great work The Consolation of Philosophy...

Even Sally Rooney's usual army of fans are tiring of her hyper-right-on schtick, if the review of her latest novel...

Politics professor James Alexander reviews two recent philosophical attacks on political lying and finds, funnily enough, that it's only lies...

Prof James Alexander reviews Christopher Beckwith's The Scythian Empire, naming it his book of the year for its thesis that...