Mark Sedwill
Politicians versus mandarins
Spats between governments and civil servants are inevitable when administrations have a radical agenda
The designated survivor
Churchill’s stroke in 1953 does not create a workable precedent for Dominic Raab to follow
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
