Innovation
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
PMQs of the Apes
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics