Sanctions Against Poland
Sinn Fein and European Values
Brussels shuns Poland’s and Hungary’s governments – but will happily break bread with Sinn Fein.
Donald Trump’s teachable moments
What lessons should today’s conservatives take from Trump?
A trip to Heaney country
The fiftieth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out is a chance to recognise the importance of place to his poetry
Gaspingly chic
The accoutrements of smoking are deathly cool
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
The empire strikes back
France is going to the polls in the shadow of its colonial past
The religion of self-worship
Rowan Williams calls it a “sacred journey” — but trans ideology is a new faith altogether
Russians … thousands of them!
Labour goes bear hunting for oligarchs
Tinker, Tailor, Rayner, Raab
From Lebedev to Corbyn — Tories and Labour trade blows on the company they have kept
How to be a literary editor
Done well, book reviews have never been more important
Scotland’s shame
Stonewall’s grip on Holyrood has been strengthened — to the detriment of women
Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films