David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Starmer the farmer
The Labour battle bus rolls into bucolic England
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Murders for August
From killers down under to death across the pond
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
