The unlikely miracle of Trump’s presidency
Trump’s inability to articulate any substantive thought renders a respected journalist’s new book unreadable
The man who exposed the watchers
David J. Garrow reviews Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman
Obama’s airbrushed dreams
Original typscript reveals an insecure man racked by self-doubt
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Why Labour doesn’t understand the gender wars
Keir Starmer’s confusion on gender is the result of years of cowardice
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
Seasonal style
Picking the right outfit for summer socials
