How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
The British family is nuclear powered
Sorry, post-liberals, but in Britain communitarianism is not traditional
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
