The Prince
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Riddle of the Pylons
Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
