Politics
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Holy baloney
Marcus Walker prays for episcopal consistency
Tawdry roots of a deeply damaging doctrine
The Separation of Powers is one of the worst, and one of the most influential, ideas around
Small is best
In Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa small nations lead in terms of economic and social development
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
