Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
Why can Hollywood never get the King Arthur story right?
Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake
Ad-vent season
Claudia Savage-Gore fumes over the PTA’s latest “voluntary” wheeze
Shutting up the unspeakable is still a bad idea
The scientific method remains dissent and criticism, even for Lockdowns
We are all Maoists now
For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Wonderful call of the wild
Macdonald’s prose is full of resonance and beauty, apposite delicacy and memorable evocations, says Matthew Adams
Why asylum abuse will get worse after Brexit
The government is blaming international rules while under-investing in national alternatives
Court out
Court delays and backlogs gave the government wide margins of authority during Covid-19
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?