Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
The once and future Right?
Could Argentina’s “madman” President rescue his country from a century of decline?
Whose rule of law?
The European Union refuses to call out democratic backsliding when orchestrated by the left
The strange death of Spain
A power-hungry socialist Prime Minister has struck a deal with separatists
An opposition unto itself
Ahead of the Spanish elections, the alliance opposing the leftist ruling coalition is falling apart
Orbán’s reconquista
Are the Hungarian Prime Minister and his allies poised to take over the institutions of the EU?
Choosing hate
Does exhuming the remains of a nationalist icon represent progress or division?
The Whig view of Spanish history
For left-wing author Giles Tremlett, concord is the telos of Spain’s history — on the left’s terms, that is
A new front in the memory wars
We should celebrate achievements, not just condemn vice
A new low for women’s sport
The International Olympic Committee has disgraced itself
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
Farage bursts the green bubble
Nigel Farage is right about the unrestrained pursuit of Net Zero
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
The town besieged
During the English Civil War, towns were fiercely divided
