Notting Hill
Venice’s ugly sister
Almost everything in Mestre is recent; everything is decayed
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
