Andrew Jefford
A literary master of wine
There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Dear Keir, get real
Instead of announcing grand new doctrines, it’s time for a very British realism
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert