Viscount Montgomery
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
The desert martinet
Viscount Montgomery: tactless, arrogant and with no instinct for politics
Most Read
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
At a pinch
On snuff and its accoutrements
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new