Jeeves and Wooster
The enduring appeal of Jeeves and Wooster
Ben Schott’s new novel is hugely welcome, but thankfully it will never threaten to obscure the genius of the canon
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health