Angela Merkel
Germany at the crossroads
Coming to terms with Merkel’s toxic legacy
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
The cloak of woke
Are “progressive” leaders just canny politicians?
The good leader delusion
Woke leaders are able to disguise their more cynical realpolitik
The sphinx who reshaped Europe
The key to Europe’s future lies with Mario Draghi, the technocrat who sidelined politicians and saved the Euro, but who now needs them to succeed as Italy’s PM
Brexit’s best argument
VDL’s hapless performance must be delighting Brexiteers
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
