Local Elections 2022
Beyond a joke
Boris was fun once, but nobody’s laughing anymore
Losing the generation game
The local elections reveal a bitter demographic conflict
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
