History
The most hateful decision
Honour, power and will at Mers-el-Kébir 80 years ago today
Portugal’s bookish dictator
At least in the eyes of his supporters, António de Oliveira Salazar succeeded in making Portugal great again
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
A plague on lazarettos
Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Too much of a maverick
Andrew Roberts reviews Haldane, by John Campbell
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
