Joao Vale de Almeida
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?
Diplomatic baggage
The EU is now demanding that it has an ambassador of equal standing to any nation state. So is the EU a state after all?
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
