Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
Oxfam’s degrowth agenda
Why do so many NGOs pursue a radical green agenda that will hurt the poorest most?
Stuck in a Rutte
An assessment of Dutch politics under Prime Minister Mark Rutte
The EU stands divided
The bloc is deeply conflicted over questions of enlargement, spending and corruption
Is a new Eurozone crisis in sight?
Dark clouds gather over the European financial landscape
Difficult questions on Ukraine
We must not shrink from reassessment
Brussels sprouts protectionism
It’s no longer a dirty word in the EU
Fracking is just common sense
The war in Ukraine has injected a healthy dose of realism into the West’s energy policy
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
