John Foster Dulles
The EU Godfather’s Wall Street roots
Adam LeBor traces the American influences behind Jean Monnet, the man who reshaped Europe
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation