Artillery Row
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
Long nights and northern lights: a journey to Arctic Russia
The polar cities of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk somehow attract a hardcore of visitors for whom winter isn’t a dirty word
Why conservatives shouldn’t migrate to Gab
If Gab’s ideal of freedom is defined by Christian Reconstructionists and fascist philosophers, then free speech will be the means, rather than the end, of the reconstruction of social media
Diplomatic baggage
The EU is now demanding that it has an ambassador of equal standing to any nation state. So is the EU a state after all?
Francis Bacon: A life lived to the full
While the authors of Francis Bacon’s latest biography deliver nothing new on the art, they do show how Bacon lived his life with a unique intensity
The return of Alexei Navalny
As much as Navalny believes in his work, he believes more strongly in the need to be a participant in Russia’s political drama