Europe
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
The roots of Germany
Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation
Revitalising the West
Ukraine has rallied the West and yet again shown our civilisation’s limitless capacity for self-renewal
Imaginary country
The land of Morbia was revealed to me in a dream
Eric Zemmour: A French Trump?
Who is the dark horse of France’s presidential election?
The vaccine passport fallacy
Why don’t we just charge the unvaccinated more?
Erno von Dohnanyi: My auntie (Capriccio)
Dohnanyi is as multicultural as they come — he must be due a comeback
Disappearing dreamlands
Is Europe losing its interesting edges as temperatures climb year by year?
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Napoleon Bonaparte: The man behind the myth
Olivia Hartley and Dr Arabella Byrne talk about Napoleon’s legacy and why the French love anniversaries
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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
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change