The longer the pandemic and the platitudes go on, the more something doesn’t feel quite right

Far from progressive, Russell T Davies’ recent remarks on the suitability of straight actors playing ‘gay’ roles are conservative and reactionary

Unfortunately for Britain, those things which might be hoped to constrain a budding imperial power do not hold China back

Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises

Allegra thinks it’s all over

Was William Hague overestimated where Sir Keir Starmer is still underestimated?

Sheldon Adelson, one of Trump’s largest individual donors, has died; leaving his wife to continue their high-stakes political influence over America and Israel

Sir Roger Scruton’s religious views are dissonant but beautiful

Despite its length, Philip Mansel’s biography of the Sun King is ‘a welcome prize for any reviewer’

Contrary to what left-wing commentators might think, Steve Bannon’s podcast is no haven for fascists or white supremacists