Nations
Do countries have ethics?
A state depends on its reputation, not just its wealth or power
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Can the West live without China?
Graham Stewart asks Stewart Paterson whether disengagement from China is an act of self-harm or a sensible stitch in time
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach