Vaclav Havel
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
