Statue Toppling
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled
Emperor Haile Selassie gets the Ozymandias treatment
The Ethiopian emperor has fallen in leafy Wimbledon, but there’s more to his demise than meets the eye
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform