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Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
