Columns

Once more unto the speeches

There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?

Sport’s regime changes

Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis

The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery

The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword

Herodotus and the birth of enquiry

Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall

Eine kleine Berlinermusik

Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)

Are automated auctions on the way?

New technology has a double edge

Losing control of the narrative

The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration

Entebbe and the Israeli way of war

Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war

The art of statesmanship

An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting

Nowhere left to go

Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.