Armin Laschet
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
