Idriss Deby Itno
Front line dictator
What the death of Idriss Deby Itno in battle means for the fight against Islamic terrorism
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
