Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
A double American Awakening
Katrina Gulliver delves into two new publications entitled ‘American Awakening’, and discovers that one is an exhortation, the other an ironic description of the current process of politics and society
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
