Are The Very Rich So Different?
In Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland vividly describes the lives of the very rich, but has little to say when it comes to what should be done about this new elite
Those Damned Papists Again
Book review of The Elizabethans by A.N. Wilson
Remembered Ernestly
Book review of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 1, 1907-1922, edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon
Defender of the Faith
Book review of Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societies by Marcello Pera
Conscience is not for Conservatives
Book review of The Conservatives: A History by Robin Harris
The Test of Character
Book Reviews: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; and Sunset Park by Paul Auster
St Gilbert of Fleet Street
Book Review: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton selected by Bevis Hillier
2010 and All That
Book Reviews: Crown and Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy by David Starkey; and The Story of England by Michael Wood
Beware the Sanguine Banker
Iain Martin’s message in his excellent Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy is that a proper sense of fear is good for bankers.
The Prime And Vigour Of His Life
The final volume of Burke's writings proves we are living in a golden age of Burke scholarship