Artillery Row
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
Out With a Bang
It’s the end of the road for Lebanon
How united is Italy?
Professor Jeremy Black and Political Editor Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Reality has been Cancelled
Helen Dale reviews Cynical Theories, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Two Cheers for Nuclear Proliferation
An obsession with the dangers of proliferation overlooks its positive effects
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
Mission Accomplished
Finley Harnett reviews the BBC’s Once Upon a Time in Iraq
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
