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
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
