strategy
Senseless in Gaza
Does anybody have a good idea of where the conflict between Israel and Hamas is going?
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Not amused: Victoria in her own words
Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
