MI5
Back door diplomacy
A fine history of Operation Chiffon
Welcome to Londongrad
We promise to respect Her Majesty’s life tenancy of Buckingham Palace
Britain’s Nazi collaborators
If Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain had succeeded he would have found accomplices as fanatical as those in Europe
Assassinating Edward VIII
Did MI5 let one of their own informants have a go at the king?
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Who judges the judges?
Judges, whatever their gender, need sufficient judgement to maintain neutrality and political impartiality
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
