Inventions
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Where have all the Orators gone?
Have mere words finally lost their power to move us?
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?
Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?
The First Friend
How the taxpayer funds Nimco Ali
Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
Letter from Washington: Cities need conservatives
…and conservatives need cities
What follows the abolition of fixed-term parliaments?
Will the Supreme Court seize the power to adjudicate on the calling of general elections?
Murders for January
Jeremy Black recommends the best murder mysteries to read in the New Year
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Parliament is preparing to meet next week to vote on EU trade deal
The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day