An all time high
Strangers are just people you haven’t infected yet
Feeling testy
Rules are for the rest of you
FOR IMMEDIATE USELESSNESS
Hutton OUT; Roger Knapman IN
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Freaky Friday
Tories and Labour become each other
Have cake. Eat cake. More cake. What cake?
Boris breaks his promises by announcing he has a plan
Boris – an optimist even in military defeat
Boris brooks no insult of our hardworking men and women in khaki and pinstripe
“Will this do?”
Johnson’s statement on Afghanistan was, as ever, a masterpiece of bare adequacy
The Diary of Dilyn the Dog
As told to Robert Hutton
Missing from the penalty spot
Boris Johnson fails the Mings test
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp