World War E
Twitter, Musk and the corruption of the Internet
The truth about book reviewing
What does it mean to be critical?
The red ripple
Why are we so obsessed with America?
Our first Californian PM
Are we all going to end up living in Stanford-upon-Thames?
Crisis? What crisis?
Maybe Old England isn’t done?
Obituaries — the unvarnished truth?
Why we should speak ill of the dead
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
The SPD
Many of Germany’s present woes were anticipated by Schröder’s time in office
The fall of East Germany
German reunification – merger or acquisition?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
