Nicholas Wapshott
Nicholas Wapshott is an author and a journalist. Follow him at @NWapshott
Golden boy turned starstruck rube
The self-justifying self-portrait of a journalist who never made it
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent