Lucy Popescu
Lucy Popescu is a writer and critic
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace