We are all Maoists now
For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing
The politics of biology and its share price
Can talent quota restrictions based on biology really deliver increased profits, productivity and gain?
Should MPs read?
If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?
The broken circle
A remarkable group of intellectuals in pre-war Vienna used philosophy to explain the scientific progess of their time — until they were halted by murder and Nazism
Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
What wine meant to Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton moved through personal tragedy and objective philosophy to justify wine as a “social intoxicant”
Heads should roll after the BBC’s coverage of the Capitol Hill riot
Under Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s news and current affairs output has let us down again and again
Is Boris immune to Tory MPs?
The Kent Covid is moving the goalposts
Without fear or favour
The police have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups
France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about what made French politics and society distinctive in the decades before and after WWI
The unsung hero of Brexit?
If Boris deserves the credit for getting Brexit done, then Marina Wheeler QC deserves some of the credit for getting Boris to back Brexit in the first place