A bank, not a study group
Christopher Fildes delves into the latest instalment of the Bank’s long and voluminous history
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
