Precarity
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
