Canadian Politics
Profile: Pierre Poilievre
The Conservative Party leader’s mantra “Canada is broken” resonates with voters appalled by the gap between their country’s promise and grim reality
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Is Georgia approaching its Euromaidan?
New attempts to curb the activities of NGOs have stirred pro-EU feeling
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?