Shamima Begum
We need to forgive Shamima Begum
An ISIS bride calls Christianity’s bluff
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
