Ned
How Napoleon won in the end
British business leaders have much to learn from their shrewd French counterparts
Snakes and ladders
Only the weak and vain are tempted by lobbyists and the lure of a trip to the Palace
The haves and the have-yachts
How can we ensure our beleaguered CEOs receive the rewards they richly deserve?
Mystic woo as management tool
Why your “breathwork” is now just as important as your bottom line
We’ll always have Davos
It’s been failing every year since it began but we do need it — or something like it
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
