The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Carelessness in the community
Who are the “community leaders” who are currently shaping police policy in Birmingham?
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
