Romans
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
How united is Italy?
Professor Jeremy Black and Political Editor Graham Stewart discuss the strength of Italy’s national unity
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom