Gavin Newsom
Letter from Washington: She’s running
Caitlyn Jenner’s candidacy is the latest blow to any distinction between celebrity and politics
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
