Birthday
Party political
Claudia Savage-Gore loses sleep plotting a stealth-lavish birthday party
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
