Freedom Party
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind