Queen Victoria
Will the Chinese “decolonise” Hong Kong?
Will a newly assertive Beijing seek to “decolonise” Hong Kong of the last visible signs of its colonial past?
The hypocrisy of the new-found freedom lovers
Commentators who have spent the last 20 years undermining key principles of democracy are crawling out from the woodwork to protect the right to protest
Walled in against the modern world
According to this book, Islam outside the West preserves much of its traditional character, but Islam within the West is in danger of petrifying, says Paul Goodman
Pointless bloodshed
Israel will remain intact and strong. Gaza will stay poor and isolated
The redemption we need
After a national Lent that has lasted a year, we can smell the blossom of hope
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
Is “Net Zero” achievable?
Steve Baker discusses with David Scullion the cutting of carbon emissions
The “right wing” case for the NHS
Lincoln Allison lays bare the strictly non-socialist argument for the NHS
The death of Soho
After a recent incident in London’s Carnaby Street, Brice Stratford laments the “dire state” of corporate Soho
The organised anger of Israel’s Arab citizens
The violence that’s receiving much less media coverage than Gaza
Anatomy of disaster
The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom