Artillery Row
How do the police not know the law?
They should stop investigating non-crimes
Psychoanalysing autocrats
How the West tries to understand its enemies
Are the Germans doing it better?
Putting the UK’s economic performance in perspective
In praise of incivility
Je suis Nicola
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
From Fatherland to Heimat
The changing face of German identity
No time for EU-bashing
Let’s focus on Putin, not Brussels
Less is Mordaunt
A miserably unsuitable candidate
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Kwasi kwits
One ex-chancellor is a tragedy, four ex-chancellors is a statistic
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
The sacred and the profane
Allowing a “Rave in the Nave” in Canterbury Cathedral was a regrettable error of judgement
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Learning in the round
Spreading fingers over a globe, not pinching them on a screen, is the best way to answer questions
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
