Is Germany riding to the defence of Europe?
Don’t expect the cavalry just yet
So long to the capitalist peace
The Big Mac has not consigned conflict to history
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
