European Coal and Steel Community
The EU Godfather’s Wall Street roots
Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
