Prime Minister
Absolutely not Boris
His personality cult must end
Blue crush
Tories are back in love with Boris
In defence of Liz
She failed, but who didn’t?
They’ll have what she’s having
The PM impressed the easily impressed
Trussception
WARNING — contains spoilers about Dunkirk
U-turn off a cliff
The only way forward was through
A resounding defeat
Can Truss turn things around?
Clothes maketh not an Iron Lady
Liz Truss’s naive doctrine of “geo-liberalism” will not survive contact with the frictions and compromises of a messy, complex world
How Britain fell out of love with Boris
The story of a shy extrovert, an unprincipled believer, a depressive funster
Labour’s reluctant royalists
How Labour leaders from Wilson to Starmer fell for The Queen
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
