Victims
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
