Artillery Row

Can British manufacturing recover?

Will Covid lead to a rebalancing of the British economy or will normal service resume? Graham Stewart discusses with John Mills

A double American Awakening

Katrina Gulliver delves into two new publications entitled ‘American Awakening’, and discovers that one is an exhortation, the other an ironic description of the current process of politics and society

Abortion Law should not be decided by courts

American conservatives and Polish liberals are both right about abortion law. It should be a matter for elected politicians, not Supreme Courts

The paradox at the heart of Catholicism

Catholic catechism is one thing, but the beliefs of the more than a billion adherents are often something entirely different

Borat Bores Us

Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Borat film is a flop

A “no deal” Brexit is not an “Australian deal” Brexit

The Withdrawal Agreement seriously constrains a sovereign UK’s room for manoeuvre

Tom Stoppard: A private man now on parade

This biography is a testament to detailed analysis and intelligent insight, says Alexander Larman

Are American universities under foreign control?

Paul du Quenoy reveals the unreported foreign investment in US universities

Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?

Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?

Harvey Weinstein’s affair with the UK film industry

What does the downfall of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein mean for the UK’s dwindling film industry?