FCO
From Britain, with more discriminating love
Properly implemented, the FCO-DfID merger could bring benefits home and away
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Eventful afterlife of a visionary genius
Unexpected bit players in Friedrich’s story set this endeavour apart from your average art biography
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Medieval treasures of Germany
Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
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
