Man About Town
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface