wine review
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Sparkling season
Spend a bit more, and you’ll find that Cava is now infinitely better than it was
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was