The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Greeks bearing gifts
This wine nation has more to offer than retsina
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
