Clothes
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Being boring
Why boring clothes are back
Clothes maketh the nation
How servants of the Crown dress is not trivial. It refl ects Britain’s decline
Mend your ways
Eschewing the new is oh so au courant
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
Steam and cedar
How to moth-proof your carefully curated personal V&A
Ivy Leagues ahead
Hannah Betts goes preppy in penny loafers and Ralph Lauren
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
