Artillery Row
Germany’s judges have spoken. Should the EU be worried?
Germany’s Constitutional Court challenges whether the ECJ can decide the extent of its own power
Live free and die: Sweden’s coronavirus experience
What have we learnt from the coronavirus outlier?
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
The Favourite
Why Boris can’t bring himself to part with Dom
Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
You’ll need to have your eyes tested
Dominic Cummings’s long and winding road to Barnard Castle
“I am a total act” (but a second act?)
John Bowers reviews A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
The wisdom of agony aunts
Advice columns are conforming to the outlook of their publication
Et tu Baker?
Steve Baker’s call for Dominic Cummings to be sacked is a dramatic intervention
Boris: take back control
Steve Baker calls on Dominic Cummings to go
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it