International Development
Charity remains at home
In cutting international aid, Tory MPs delude themselves into believing the prime minister
British self-interested aid
Is it wrong that donor countries should also benefit from their development aid projects?
From Britain, with more discriminating love
Properly implemented, the FCO-DfID merger could bring benefits home and away
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career