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Reckless US faces a reckoning
Trump’s spending spree will mean sky-high inflation and interest rates
Lights, camera, chaos
Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
Catch that pigeon!
Patrick Galbraith takes aim at an agricultural pest
An opera critic in lockdown
The critic, like a used-up traveller in ladies’ corsetry in a Fifties film, is enjoying a happy furlough
Without a hitch
Hannah Betts on a coronavirus upside: no bridezilla weddings
Rescue specialist
He had a particular skill with those who had fallen foul of the system
Old school reformer
Eric understood that the system had to stop being a relic of the past
Master of judgement
Jacob Rees-Mogg remembers a man who knew how to handle people
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave