Features

City of the future

Birmingham was once an economic powerhouse with a proud civic identity. Today it is at the forefront of a battle for the new England

The maverick of Venice

Here we have a cultural ambassador for the multipolar age

The horror of greetings inflation

Social niceties today demand a performative jeremiad on the state of the world

How to ruin a university

There is a managerial cancer afflicting the higher education sector

Message to Britain: get real

We need a foreign policy that accepts the dark facts of international life

Getting our lame ducks in a row

Government energy policy is fuelling the collapse of Britain’s dwindling manufacturing sector

A fearless, serious historian

A tribute to John Charmley, bold revisionist biographer of Chamberlain and Churchill

The curious case of Project Spire

How could a project so contentious be within the Church Commissioners’ charitable purposes?

Lord Boothby

A sexually voracious bisexual buffoon who was rescued from infamy by powerful friends

Populism’s problem

The anti-elitism inherent in working-class, right-wing movements will prove their downfall