Michel Barnier
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Anatomy of a miserable deal
Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal
Linked but not combined
In sentiment – if not in its detail – the deal echoes Churchill’s vision for Britain and Europe
Britain’s Brexit deadline abandoned
Both sides no longer recognise 15 October as the last day by which a deal can be struck
Is a deal any closer?
There is movement on everything, except the fundamentals
Breaking the UK-EU deadlock
The big concession to get talks moving is about to be made over the heads of Barnier and Frost
The UK-EU talks: deal or no deal?
The summer deadline is not all it seems. But is the Northern Ireland Protocol the real deal?
“We’re not going to subordinate our laws to theirs in any areas.”
There’s only two months left for one side to climb down, or the EU-UK talks will fail.
No Brexit transition extension – bluff or brinkmanship?
This is a good time to bury bad news, so why the shortage of shovels?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
