Austro-Hungarian Empire
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Love and death in Vienna
Spanish flu killed Schiele and Klimt. Their art sensed the brevity of life and the doom of their society
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The Red Sea rules the Red Wall
The bond market does not care about levelling up, devolution or Manchester. It cares about oil, inflation and the Strait of Hormuz
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Andy Burnham is a coward
Andy Burnham’s refusal to submit himself to serious questioning tells us more about his premiership than any manifesto could
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street