Johnson and Jenrick may want to reform planning, but will millions of homeowners let them?
A new collection of essays from Policy Exchange shows up some of the glaring defects of the planning system.
Disraeli the anti-prig tells us far more about Johnson than Churchill does
Disraeli’s impudence and audacity, demonstrated in this collection of his sayings, cast light on the present Prime Minister’s conduct.
New York Times journalists, blinded by moral indignation, cannot understand how Trump got where he is today
But David Enrich’s new book does include a lot about how Deutsche Bank lent the President the money needed to look successful.
How Johnson’s editorship of The Spectator delayed his ascent, but perhaps also educated him
A new history of the magazine, which has just celebrated its 10,000th issue, relates how successive editors showed their “hatred of shams”.
Buffoonery, suffused sex and Latinate evasion: how Johnson’s language helped him become Prime Minister
This compilation of some of the terms he has used shows how, while rising to national leadership, he reassured outsiders that he was still one of them.
Scottish nationalism is motivated more by anti-English hatred than by rational argument
In his new book, John Lloyd makes the case for maintaining the Act of Union of 1707, and exposes the dark passions which motivate the SNP.
A book which sees the ultra-liberals as a threat. But doesn’t recognise that they’re not having it all their own way.
The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.
Conservatism is dying: the liberals have won
Ed West describes in his new book how the Left has established “a moral monopoly”. It describes the mentality of a Tory who will not be imprisoned in a system.
How Trump made himself the champion of America’s Christian evangelicals
The authors of a new book trace the enduring influence of American Puritanism, and explain how the President appeals to it.
Bercow was the rudest Speaker of modern times, yet by the end he had degenerated into an Establishment stooge
The former Speaker’s autobiography is a disappointment. He writes as he talks – and after a time this becomes wearisome.
Does Johnson have the guts to tackle the rigged housing market described by Halligan?
A new book explains why building land is prohibitively expensive.
The Critic, a new magazine which sets out to expose and ridicule bad ideas
Its future is not yet in the bag, but it has made a remarkably assured start. Much now depends on the genius of its editors.
May deserves better than this dull, lazy, superficial account of her prime ministership
Seldon’s latest book, composed in only six months, will at best be a quarry on which future historians can draw.
The poor bloody infantry: why people join political parties
A new study asks good questions without providing good answers.
Skelton on One Nation, and how Tories must take the lead in reviving towns which have been left to rot
The patriotic, Brexit-voting working class, neglected for decades by Labour, must now be championed by the Conservatives.