Europe’s foreign policy muddle
What foreign policy does the EU want, and does it even want one
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
