Something in the way Xi moves
We should engage the CCP instead of being intimidated
Remembering Iraq
We still feel the consequences of that disastrous war
Development hell
The war in Ukraine has ground to a stalemate
International disorder
Tyrants are breaking with civilisation
The Pope’s African pilgrimage
Does the continent represent the future of Catholicism?
The unholy conflict
The world has to face the bloodshed in the Middle East
A California nightmare
What is the future of the Golden State?
The Zelensky dilemma
Rhetoric will not end the war
The greatest shitshow on Earth
Hopes and fears at the end of 2022
Hope for peace in Ukraine
We should all welcome the chance for serious talks
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
