The making of Donald Trump
In his new book, Gerald Seib asks whether the turn towards nationalism and populism in the US is permanent
Decline of the sclerotic West
Richard Reinsch reviews The Decadent Society, by Ross Douthat
Why populism is popular
Richard Reinsch reviews The New Class War By Michael Lind
In defence of the US nation
Richard Reinsch reviews The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry
What’s in a name?
Dominic Hilton laments the various lunacies surrounding his name
Labour’s Local Election launch
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner failed to convince the electorate that Labour has totally renounced Corbynism
Alexei Stanchinsky: Piano works (Ondine)
Stanchinsky occupies a tonal territory midway between Rachmaninov and Scriabin; an amalgam of suppurating misery and crackpot visionary
Cracking good meals
Explore the splendid panoply of egg recipes for an Easter, feast, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?
How many Nationalist parties does it take to change a lightbulb?
Will Salmond’s Alba Party split or maximise the pro-independence vote in May?
Conte’s conundrum
How has Italy’s Giuseppe Conte defied the odds and become a consequential political figure in his own right?
Murders for late February
From countryside crimes to mysteries on the waves, Jeremy Black recommends further reading from the British Library Crime Classics collection
Why the ‘100,000 deaths’ figure is misleading the public
News outlets should report the age-standardised mortality rates alongside the number of excess deaths so as not to mislead the public
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us