Prodigal Brother
The Rage Against God: Why Faith is the Foundation of Civilisation by Peter Hitchens
The Poetical Mollusc
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks
Men From the Ministry
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd
We’ve Been Here Before
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
Political Classes
‘American academia is being swamped by the backwaters of identity politics’
Kaliningrad: Russia’s Outpost in Europe’s Heart
"It is almost impossible to believe this misery was once a beautiful German city known as Königsberg, where Kant thought, Herder wrote and Prussia
Havana: The Castros Will Not Be Absolved
"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is
Desperately Needing Susan
The Royal Institution has made a huge mistake by sacking its media-friendly director