White Collar Crime
The case of the legless duchess
A tale that proves the media and the public still thrill to an art theft
Dodgy deals and a suspect stele
There is an infinite number of ways of conning collectors, investors and even institutions too
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting