Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
When the balloon goes up…
Can history teach us anything about growing Sino-American tension?
The dead city
Romanticism rising from the rubble
Joyous adventures in the absurd
A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
The first post-modern war
The Falklands conflict was no imperialist throwback
Know your Ally
Just who are our plucky Ukrainian friends?
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
David Graeber (1961-2020)
A requiem for the radical anthropologist
Grace under pressure?
How effective have high-risk media events been for French foreign policy?
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
The day #FBPE delusions died
Europeans have shifted rightwards — and no one should be surprised
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
