Macron
Communal unrest breaks out in France
Vladislav Davidson explains the most bizarre communal violence in recent memory
Hope and recrimination in the City of Light
Macron gets a hard time but Paris is beginning to bustle
Paris on lockdown: ‘Eccentric’ running and a chastened president
Macron admits mistakes as quarantine continues in France
Open lawfare
With crowd funding, private individuals can remake the Government itself in court
The drug war’s Neville Chamberlain
Decriminalising cannabis is the last thing London’s young people need
Tomorrow in Poland
“Konfederacja” and PiS are predestined partners in the attempt to protect Poland’s identity and learn from the West’s mistakes
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Cancelling Terry Gilliam (again)
Gilliam is now 80, and seems as cheerily intent on causing trouble and controversy as ever
Right off track
Women deserve better than a half-baked poster campaign
The myth of childhood obesity
The statistics are unfit for purpose
Misogyny by any other name
When the overwhelming majority of individuals are horrifically abused, as in the sex trade, we typically call for such industries to be abolished
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
The chance introduction that led to some extraordinary evenings with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolf in plod’s clothing
Why “Non Crime Hate Incidents” don’t seem to apply to the cops
Murders for early December
Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era