Europe
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
In Praise of Plod
How our police lost their way, and why they’re still better than the alternative
Paris on lockdown: ‘Eccentric’ running and a chastened president
Macron admits mistakes as quarantine continues in France
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
