Artillery Row
Gordon Brown — a study in failure
The ex-PM’s dangerous quest to salvage a legacy
Qatargate is a feature — not a bug — of the EU
Brussels is the seat of too much unaccountable power not to produce scandals of this very nature
A winter of missed content
Is Britain going to be over by Christmas? Will our brave author survive the coming frost?
Who cares who wins
The mythology of the SAS
Top of the polls
Starmer’s cult of impersonality is frustrating Labour Leninists everywhere
Pride and shame at the Beeb
The BBC needs more balance on gender issues
Struggles of the Sussexes
What kind of future do Harry and Meghan have?
Coups and coronets
The return of the radical and the ridiculous
No room at the premier inn
Britain is fully booked this Christmas and won’t be accepting any more lodgers
Shadow of the Kaiserreich
The rootlessness of German political culture
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
