If
‘You’ll be a Man, my son!’
Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?