Massacre made-to-order
Perhaps Jake Davison killed those people because he could, not because he was an incel
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
