Local Elections 2023
The slippery slope to basic standards
How has the demand for “access” overridden basic requirements?
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
