The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
