Thomas Piketty
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
A defensive concern under the right conditions can morph into a warrant for brutal expansionism
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions