Brexit
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
Grand Tax Auto
Will Javid’s tax on Amazon endanger a UK-US free trade agreement?
How Sir Graham protected May
The Chairman of the 1922 protected the leader rather than the party
The verdict of history
How will Brexit shape views on the political generation that lost?
What will Trump’s America learn from Boris?
The Conservative victory matters because of the differences between Trump and Johnson, not the similarities
What will Brexit do?
No control has been taken back. Even if it is, what will be done with it?
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit
A classicist in No 10: Boris and his worldview
The real cowspiracy
Politicians fiddle as a beef cartel leaves farmers in existential crisis
Block Boris!
There is a risk that if Boris Johnson receives the most votes he might actually win. This is unacceptable
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Try Christianity
Reflecting on the cross, we find a truth that is often too easy to forget
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
