Unquestionably Whitty and Vallance
The outlook is grey, no questions
Boris Relief: the Tory telethon you’ve been waiting for
Dig deep, otherwise Carrie will have to publish her diaries
Think of it as two Christmasses, darling
All the PMQ and Liaison Committee detail. If detail’s the right word. Which it’s not
Boris goes for Boris
The oven-ready withdrawal deal turns out to be inedible
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
