Unions
Tube strikes aren’t socialist
Why do so many on the Left back poor quality public services?
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be
It’s not that life is perfect — it just isn’t the 70s
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
