Artillery Row

Is the expat way of life coming to an end?

The main rules of being an expat are 1) avoid controversy at all costs and 2) constantly belittle your home country

Letter from Washington: Biden’s covid complacency

The president should double his vaccine target

There’s nothing so ex as an ex-PM

Rejected and reviled former prime ministers should stay in the political graveyard where they belong

The Trump administration’s parting blows

There is an ignoble history of outgoing administrations making things harder for their unwelcome successors – and Trump’s departure was no exception

An American in search of the English national character

Daniel Pipes’s quest to understand the English national character leaves him none the wiser

The limits of optimism

Like Mr Stimpson in the film Clockwise, Boris Johnson is learning about the perils of fostering hope

The slab from the lab – is meat cultured from cells the future (or end) of farming?

The investor and author of Moo’s Law, Jim Mellon, talks to Graham Stewart about the coming agrarian revolution

Murders for the end of the month

From laugh-out-louds to gripping plots, Jeremy Black recommends murder mysteries for the end of the month

France between Belle Epoque and Blitzkrieg

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about what made French politics and society distinctive in the decades before and after WWI

What would Jesus say?

Bishop Nazir-Ali replies to Frederic Raphael’s Open Letter to Jesus