Commonwealth Games
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
The cowardice of Sir Stephen Fry
Fry does not deserve credit for his belated change of course on gender issues
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
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
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The establishment is still denying justice to the victims of grooming gangs
Institutional failures must be exposed and accounted for
