The Week
Letters: Camilla should not be called ‘Queen Consort’
Zero sense Sir: Ross Clark’s article (‘Hot air’, 12 November) neatly sums up some of the fallacies of the net…
The new era of austerity
It’s the Chancellor who will deliver next week’s Autumn Statement, but every-one knows it will have been ghost-written by Rishi…
Letters: The triple lock must be saved
Running the asylum Sir: The interview with Robert Buckland must be the most depressing article I have read for a…
Portrait of the week: Williamson resigns, nurses strike and Norwegian royal quits
Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…
My part in Jair Bolsonaro’s downfall
Rio de Janeiro When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…
Portrait of the week: A migrant crisis in Manston, elections for Northern Ireland and Matt Hancock heads for the jungle
Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…
What Scholz should bear in mind on his trip to Beijing
Olaf Scholz will be in Beijing this weekend, making the first visit of a western leader to China since the…
It’s good to be back on the back benches
After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…
The privations of Diogenes
Nine exceedingly passive ‘activists’ glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen factory in Germany and complained about being humiliated,…
Portrait of the week: Sunak in No. 10, pasta gets pricier and Russia hits Ukraine’s energy grid
Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…
Letters: What to do with the Elgin Marbles
Sculpting a solution Sir: Noel Malcolm’s article ‘Relief fund’ (22 October) rightly suggests that legislators should consider the issue of…
The economic storm ahead is losing some of its power
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, German protesters lined the streets holding placards saying ‘Better a cold shower than Putin’s…
Portrait of the week: Truss says sorry, Hunt reverses mini-Budget and Kanye West buys Parler
Home Liz Truss said in a BBC interview as Prime Minister that she wanted to ‘say sorry for the mistakes…
Inside the Booker Prize
It’s been a great week for the powerful fantasies of fiction (see more below), but over the weekend no novel…
Liz Truss and the art of rhetoric
Liz Truss was spot-on in arguing that the only way in which a state can flourish is by combining low…
Letters: The case for legalising cannabis
Paying the price Sir: Lionel Shriver’s piece about university standards rang true to me (‘University is supposed to be hard’,…