Istanbul Convention
Ratifying the Istanbul Convention won’t protect British women
We must not empower an international body to meddle in matters which should be left to our own lawmakers
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China