Spies
The genre that came in from the cold
Why we love spy fiction
The sad face of espionage
The reality of Russian spying is more poignant and mundane than it might seem
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was