Crime
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Sadiq Khan has been ordered to explain his ousting of Met police chief Cressida Dick
Swansongs and southern discomfort
Three new novels plough the furrow between popular and literary fiction
Lola and the silence
French politicians cannot face facts
The right to protest is not the right to crime
People who break the law have always faced consequences
What is happening to London?
The capital is infected with malaise
Hate crime and hate slime
There’s a difference between violence and criticism
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
Grime and grandeur in the big, rotting Apple
The slick glitz of the UN General Assembly was smothered by a city on its knees
Time to check the police’s thinking
Have they forgotten what they are for?
Chris Kaba and the rush to judgement
We don’t know what happened or what justice will mean
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
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
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
