Inventions
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Fenella Jeavons: Sponsorship Facilitator
Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
A leader who loved Japan
How Shinzo Abe and his country resisted stagnation
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the role of Prussia in the eighteenth century
Pushkin House beats a bomb threat
A note of dread on a night about Eurasianism
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature