Travel Writing
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
The extraordinary life of Jan Morris
The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
