Features
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
Why levelling up failed
We must think local in order to foster growth
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
The National Trust should act its age
Our main heritage conservation charity wants to be down with the kids
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year