War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Love on manoeuvres
La fille du régiment, Covent Garden
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Zelensky and the lessons of war
Upheaval at the top need be no bad thing for the Ukrainians — but they cannot lose sight of victory
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances