Prisoner Exchange
The art of the bad deal
How could the US have released Viktor Bout?
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
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
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
