Europe
Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?
Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?
How should Boris navigate the Internal Market Bill?
What options are open for the PM as Brexit negotiations continue to languish?
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
Altogether enough enjoyment
Venice after people
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
An economic warning to the curious
There are no good British lessons from higher European taxes
Failing to escape Brexit in Buenos Aires
You can’t escape entitled Brits whingeing about Brexit, even in Argentina. But you may encounter the ghosts of Nazis
Turkey: neither Neo-Ottoman nor Universal Islamist
Western leaders are misconstruing the nature of Turkey’s government and its mission at home and abroad
How I discovered Art and Architecture
Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth
The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad
Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
