Book Review
Lost in the eye of the hurricane
Crisis is the pinwheel of modern democratic politics
Asking the right questions about race
If racial disparities don’t equate to racism, then what does explain it?
The people’s captain
What our politics can learn from Kevin Sinfield
What’s the matter with women?
Perhaps they should be more like men
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Demystifying the cyber-hackers
What is being kept safe, and how, and from whom, are not just engineering questions
The duty of care
What, asks this new memoir-manifesto, are families for?
History to be heeded
The evils of Hitler and Stalin should haunt us today
Crooked timber
A fine survey of the life and work of Isiah Berlin
Elegant buildings elegantly explained
The Past is no longer something that Was, but one of many possible solutions
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich