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
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
