Macron
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Opposed, for sure, but modernising
Emmanuel Macron’s longer term legacy will not be one of style over substance, but of creating a certain idea of France’s place in the modern world
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
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
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto