Cabinet
Why are British politicians such utter bores?
Mediocre people for mediocre times
The odd couples
Against the Prime Minister/Chancellor diarchy
“Good chaps” need not apply
Lord Chancellors who respect inconvenient unwritten rules are no longer welcome
The toothless lord
Lord Geidt has not started well as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests
Why the Church fails to get answers from above
The Anglican hierarchy is obsessed with management structures over the real issues of morality, theology and falling congregations
On Mount Nebo’s crest
The political life of David Trimble
Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
Kemi Badenoch’s misplaced priorities
Culture wars won’t seem quite as important in the cold
An unfinished masterpiece
One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
How Hitler won
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the Nazis won in 1933 with only a third of the vote
An unaccustomed wine
30 years ago English wine was changed forever, and a vinicultural revolution began
Christians are under attack in Nigeria
The UK has turned a blind eye to persecution for far too long
The people behind the podium
A treatise on the life and mating habits of the party political activist
Bad Penny
Mordaunt should be more open about her role in the gender wars