A jobbing criminal hack reveals that the lower courts are in a frightful mess
The Secret Barrister has attained a great success with his account of a legal system infected with squalid incompetence.
Graham and Rowley try to answer the big question “Why are you a Conservative?”
These two MPs have not found, at the first attempt, the sort of language that will appeal to the unconverted. But nor did David Cameron.
Why the Americans make such rotten imperialists
Amy Chua says they are blind to the decisive importance of tribal politics – an obliviousness which extends to America itself, and prepared the way for Trump.
How Trump won with America’s losers
David Frum expresses the dismay of an upright North American conservative at the triumph of Trump.
Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic
Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.
Liberal Americans are no nearer working out how to cope with Trump
And the Republicans have forgotten how to stop a demagogue from becoming their presidential candidate.
De Bois offers a witty account of how not to hold Enfield North
His memoir describes the travails of a non-Cameroon during the Coalition and under Conservative majority government.
The mighty edifice of human rights rests on no coherent philosophy
Noel Malcolm warns that the European Court of Human Rights has become a threat to democracy.
Shipman reports the full horror of May’s Downing Street
But in his new book, he does not quite explain why she has remained Prime Minister.
Willetts makes a powerful case for university expansion
The former minister upholds tuition fees, points out that these are good for the poor, and attacks academic resistance to competition.
Book review: Gordon Brown has learned nothing and forgotten quite a bit
He never resolved his conflict between being brought up to repress his emotions and as a politician having to express them.
How did American conservatives end up with Trump?
A new book laments how the Right allowed this bully, fabulist and serial abuser of women to get to the White House.
Harris defends the deal Chamberlain struck with Hitler at Munich
His new thriller is readable, but lets the British Prime Minister and Establishment of 1938 off far too lightly.
Ashcroft’s new book: at the general election May failed to stop the Tories being seen as the nasty party
The PM lost her majority by running a single issue campaign which left Corbyn the chance to pose as the champion of ordinary people.
Morgan’s new book. Character must once again be taught in schools.
She makes this case in her first publication, but is far too anxious never to cause anyone in the educational establishment any offence.