Giorgia Meloni
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Italy and the f-word
What power does it have?
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
