shoe banging
Khrushchev – shoe banger for a superpower
On the 50th anniversary of his death – what should we make of Nikita Khrushchev?
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
