Gabriel Attal
Who will be Macron’s dauphin?
And what does it mean to be the heir to Macronism anyway
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
