Gérald Darmanin
Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
