Politics
Where have all the Orators gone?
Have mere words finally lost their power to move us?
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
Hail to the Chief (Part VI)
What will historians make of Donald Trump’s presidency? Graham Stewart discusses with Jeremy Black
Kitchen cabinet
Felipe Fernández-Armesto says MPs should pay their dues in the kitchen
The Coronavirus rebels in full
Backbenchers in the Tory party are gradually turning their private frustrations into rebel votes
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
Can political biographies ever be any good?
Political memoirs can be essential, eye-popping reading if the subject is handled in the right way
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
Understanding France’s newest terrorism
Lockdown interrupted terrorism, but the post-lockdown West is more permissive
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
