Nobel Prize
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Bad bets by the Booker
In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?
Nobel Noblemen
Beckett, Camus and Monod arrived by different roads at the same destination thanks to their common experience of fighting injustice
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
