The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
A police school for scandal
f it’s any wonder there’s a two-tier policing controversy when officer training is focused on political correctness
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
When art took on fascism (and lost)
Abstract activist concerns have overshadowed aesthetic production
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life