Erdogan
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
The strongman we know
The alternative to Erdogan could be worse
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
