Aleister Crowley was even more beastly than we’d imagined
City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley by Phil Baker reviewed
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Saturday
Tuesday
Where will Boris write his column?
The outgoing British PM is being linked with posts at a number of newspapers
Monday
Prince Harry should stop lecturing Americans
The former royal thinks he knows what’s best for Americans
Thursday
How Love Island killed sex
The two former functions of sex have essentially evaporated
Thursday
Boris was never Trump
Their similarities rest mainly in their enemies
Boris is gone: the leadership contest now begins
The leadership contest now begins
Wednesday
What is the point of Boris Johnson?
He’s no Trump, more like a twenty-first-century globalist sultan
Beware the sex party bores
Millennials haven’t stopped having sex; they’re just doing it while strapped into a harness
Friday
The quiet radicalism of Elizabeth II
She has been not just an interested bystander but a player
Are republicans becoming an endangered species?
Come Jubilee time, anti-monarchy sorts are nowhere to be found
Friday
The Queen’s dedication to service was learnt at her father’s knee
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman reviewed
Friday
Ukraine's most wanted – an interview with Dmitry Firtash
Can we trust Dmitry Firtash?
Thursday
In defence of bad jokes
It is the easiest thing imaginable to hang the jester
Friday
Is it over?
The British PM is in the worst trouble of his premiership
Wednesday
To save the Union, ignore Gordon Brown
As he blasts his way through the remaining support beams of the UK constitution, Gordon Brown is doing more to deliver Scottish independence than the SNP. The former Prime Minister is reportedly poised to recommend that Labour adopt ‘devo max’ as a policy, which would see the SNP-run Scottish parliament handed yet another tranche of powers. Only defence and foreign policy would remain in the hands of Westminster: everything else would be at the whim of Nicola Sturgeon. The theory is that by increasing the powers of Holyrood, the Scots’ appetite for independence will be sated. But is no evidence for this, and 23 years of evidence against it. From
Thursday
Yours disgusted, H.G. Wells: the young writer finds marriage insufferable
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin reviewed
Can the fiasco of the Dieppe Raid really be excused?
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop reviewed
Thursday
The revival of the blacksmith’s craft — a new generation goes at it hammer and tongs
Blacksmith: Apprentice to Master: Tools & Traditions of an Ancient Craft by Alex Pole reviewed
Cop out: Boris’s battle to save the climate summit
Boris Johnson has long seen this summit as the chance to showcase his Global Britain agenda
Saturday
Liberty is the American virus
We have the Delta strain of freedom