Europe
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide