The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
More Skullions, fewer Lady Marys
Why are university admission stories not about the admitters?
Oxford is fallen
What do they know of faith who only multi-faith spaces know?
A walk in the park
Can late Elizabethans do without Victorian vistas?
Return of the Dance of Death
Coronavirus may be sweeping the world but we’ve been here before
Christmas drinks
Fergus Butler-Gallie blesses that which unites church and pub
It’s Trump’s world, and Biden only governs in it
Paul du Quenoy says there is much greater continuity in Biden’s foreign policy than the current narrative suggests
The universal appeal of self-pity
Zeinab Badawi’s ‘The History of Africa’ (BBC World News)
What deal would be acceptable to most Brexit-supporting MPs?
How far will regulatory divergence be permitted and how will disputes be settled?
Ethiopia weeps again
The Ethiopian prime minister’s Nobel Peace Prize appears increasingly ludicrous as he risks civil war
The slab from the lab – is meat cultured from cells the future (or end) of farming?
The investor and author of Moo’s Law, Jim Mellon, talks to Graham Stewart about the coming agrarian revolution
The never-ending inquiries into the murder of Pat Finucane
Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has announced further reviews to appease the incoming Biden administration
Learning from the past
Much of Wisdom of the Ancients makes one appreciate how we get sidetracked by so much trivial nonsense
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
Ethiopia teeters as UK government is preoccupied by Covid-19
Developing countries that the UK assists are being sidelined as the UK government’s attention is seized by Covid-19 and domestic troubles
The Trump administration’s parting blows
There is an ignoble history of outgoing administrations making things harder for their unwelcome successors – and Trump’s departure was no exception