John Bolton
Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
Letter from Washington: Conservatism’s entente discordiale
America’s religious right questions the deals it has cut
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
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.
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?