Italian Politics
King of the Italians
Why Berlusconi was loved in spite of everything
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
