Features

Borderland: Europe’s Eastern faultline

Rising tensions over gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean are fuelled by Erdogan’s dream of expanding Turkey’s borders

Joe should go back to school

Here’s how the new president can unite the country — and pick up votes

The Marxist cell in Number 10

Adam LeBor investigates the former communist cult that has found common cause with the prime minister and the Brexiteer Conservative right

Biden’s Latin lesson

How Hispanic voters across the country returned historic swings to Trump

Churchill and the genocide myth

Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine

Defender of the faith

Daniel Johnson remembers Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, wise and generous friend, guide and mentor

Britain’s last conservative prime minister

A new collection of essays provides a welcome reappraisal of Labour leader James Callaghan, says Graham Stewart

Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race

The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry

Very Amis, very Hampstead

Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero

The end of the skin game

Richard D. North charts the rise and fall of the British fur trade