Politics
When Political Families Fall Out
Has the dysfunctional family replaced the dynastic one in politics?
The liberal hero who sealed in Ulster’s sectarianism
John Hume, 1937-2020
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse
Had cake, ate cake
Why Boris won’t allow other people to enjoy the things he has
Will the summer recess really be a break?
Graham Stewart and David Scullion discuss what we can expect in the coming weeks
Auf Wiedersehen, Britain
A German radio broadcaster on what he’s learnt about the British
There’s always hope
Union hacks never die, they just go into corporate comms
The simplest thing is difficult
Does Dominic Cummings know what he doesn’t know about Defence policy?
Pounding to nothing
Patrick Porter reviews The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton
What did Roger Scruton and Christopher Hitchens have in common?
Douglas Murray on the personal debt he owes to the two men he considers his literary mentors
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
