The Week

Letters: Camilla should not be called ‘Queen Consort’

19 November 2022 9:00 am

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

12 November 2022 9:00 am

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

12 November 2022 9:00 am

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

12 November 2022 9:00 am

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

5 November 2022 9:00 am

  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

5 November 2022 9:00 am

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

5 November 2022 9:00 am

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

29 October 2022 9:00 am

After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…

Who was Britain’s youngest prime minister?

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Prime numbers At 42, Rishi Sunak is Britain’s youngest PM since Lord Liverpool took office the day after his 42nd…

The privations of Diogenes

29 October 2022 9:00 am

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

29 October 2022 9:00 am

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

29 October 2022 9:00 am

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

29 October 2022 9:00 am

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

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Home Liz Truss said in a BBC interview as Prime Minister that she wanted to ‘say sorry for the mistakes…

Inside the Booker Prize

22 October 2022 9:00 am

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

22 October 2022 9:00 am

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

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Paying the price Sir: Lionel Shriver’s piece about university standards rang true to me (‘University is supposed to be hard’,…

Has the pandemic made us appreciate nature more?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Out to grass If Liz Truss is forced out of office (and doesn’t also resign her parliamentary seat as Tony…