West Germany
How West Germany rode the storm
Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
