Roger Federer
Simply the best
It is not just trophies and success that mark out Federer, but grace, personality and charm
A shapeless, moving, end in itself
So entropic is Geoff Dyer’s latest that the reader seeks desperately for structure
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness