Charles Michel
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?
Breaking the UK-EU deadlock
The big concession to get talks moving is about to be made over the heads of Barnier and Frost
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
