Bitter and twisted
Twitter could be a boon to academics. Instead, it has become the playground of a cynical cabal of work-shy mediocrities
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
