Montenegro
An interview with the Prime Minister of Montenegro
The bullish but beleaguered PM has more enemies at home than he does abroad
Having what it takes to secede
Only a tiny minority of independence movements have been both peaceful and successful
Can Montenegro recover from half a millennia of hurt, pride, rage, and war?
We have to be wise to what else is simmering beneath beaches and staggeringly beautiful mountain ranges of this little paradise
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
