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
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
