Steve Baker
Steve Baker is the Conservative MP for Wycombe and a former chairman of the European Research Group. @SteveBakerHW
A year of Black Wednesdays?
The CRG deputy chairman on the longterm Lockdown risks
How EU propaganda is targeting the youth of the UK
It is clear that the EU is still thinking of its thousand different ways to win, and it is doing so by bombarding the younger generations with pro-EU messages
Is it Britain’s turn to invoke Article 16 this week?
Who has the better poker face for this week’s EU-UK Joint Committee meeting – Gove or Šefčovič?
Classic Dom
See Lee out back about the merch, there’s grenade keyrings and everything
Is the delicensing of CGTN a good thing?
Even though the Chinese English-language news channel can be pretty poisonous, Andrew Tettenborn questions whether it should be banned
Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
Privilege
Privilege comes from the Latin privilegium, a bill or law giving advantage to a private individual
Hilary Hahn: Paris (Deutsche Grammophon)
Hahn’s finely honed skills as a violinist are seldom in demand on this one-star album
Revisiting Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square
Hamilton first delivered this to his publishers 80 years ago in March 1941. What does a re-read of it tell us about the time that produced it?
Is America really back?
Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan shows a reluctance to do things that are hard and necessary
Is the expat way of life coming to an end?
The main rules of being an expat are 1) avoid controversy at all costs and 2) constantly belittle your home country