Robert Walpole
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
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
