Saddam Hussein
Christopher Hitchens’s War
Commentators used 9/11 to keep framing the world as liberty versus totalitarianism
Shifting sands for Saudi
The Kingdom’s attempt to float Saudi Aramco didn’t go fully to plan
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
Good and evil on the new frontier
Our current ethical guidelines are hopelessly inadequate for a new era of unimaginable technological change
Soft power superpower?
It’s easy to mock, but British influence is real — and a potent tool for good
Rooster booster
Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
The progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
A Commons grilling
Boris vs Keir once again provides more heat than energy
Manifesto for how we love now
Louise Perry suggests that ancestral prudence is now lost among the youth