Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
