UK
It’s hurting but it’s just not working
The government’s Covid-19 cure is worse than the virus
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
