Summer
Don’t mock the Med mindset
What the Spanish have lost in international relevance, they make up in appreciating life
Steam and cedar
How to moth-proof your carefully curated personal V&A
Summer ‘drille
Hannah Betts chooses floaty frocks and espadrilles
We’re all in the pink
Christopher Pincher celebrates the return of warm summer nights with a taste of Provence — and the finest rosé in the world
Dancing into Fall
Hannah Betts selects a fabulous, gloom-defying autumn wardrobe
Swap till you drop
Thomas Woodham-Smith enjoys a great trade tradition
The sadder side of summer
Tragedy struck Gustav Mahler, the archetypal summer composer, in 1907
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
