World
Courtcore: why the right outfit is as important as a good lawyer
When the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird came out in 1962, America was captivated. In part it was because of…
Umbria: Italy’s underrated gem
Nestled in the Apennine Mountains due east of Rome is the region of Umbria, a hidden gem at the heart…
John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper
Well, well, well. That is to say, I told you so. Finally, at last, it was about time, scary-looking special counsel John…
AI could render Tinder and Hinge redundant
The world is home to 7.8 billion people. Roughly one in fourteen of these people (530 million) are on Tinder.…
Britain is becoming Brussels on Thames
Whatever happened to Singapore on Thames? Weren’t we, after leaving the EU, supposed to be forging a future as a…
How the Conservatives can win again
There is a tension at the heart of conservative thinking today – one that the Conservative party must address if…
Should we ignore Putin’s criticism of the West?
Not much happens in Russian families without the say so of the babushka. Russia’s high divorce-rate, and a situation where…
Britain’s economy is struggling with so many off sick
One of the UK’s biggest economic problems is having so many people out of work – and the slowest return…
The inconvenient Palestinians
His name was Abdullah Abu Jaba and I want you to remember it because it’s the last time you’ll hear…
Prigozhin’s ‘treachery’ poses a dangerous challenge to Putin
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the businessman behind the Wagner mercenary army, likes accusing his political enemies of ‘treason’ for not backing him…
Vladimir Putin must be praying that Lukashenko survives
Belarus’s president Aleksandr Lukashenko has been missing from public view since being taken ill during a Victory Day parade in…
How president Erdogan defied the odds – again
The results of yesterday’s election have come as a sobering shock for many in Turkey. Although president Erdogan fell just…
Macron has no idea how to pay for ‘reindustrialisation’
Emmanuel Macron is playing the emperor again. Last week he proudly announced a grand new strategy, but without any indication…
The problem with prison
The former prime minister Sir John Major has suggested the UK need not be banging up quite so many people.…
Ministers block release of draft coronation playlist
It was Yes Minister which joked that open government is ‘a contradiction in terms: you can be open or you…
Writers are doomed to fail in their war against AI
It’s a cliché of publishing that men over the age of 40 only read military history. In my case it’s not…
A Lib-Lab coalition would be hilarious
Talk of a new Labour-Lib Dem coalition is in the air. This is piquantly nostalgic to those of us whose…
Academic publishing is lazy and unethical
Last week witnessed the first tremors of what could be a welcome revolution: the resignation en masse of the 40-strong editorial board of NeuroImage magazine – regarded…
Let’s stop pretending the culture wars aren’t real
Are the culture wars real? Some assume that they’re an imaginary affair, or, at best, a distraction from the real,…
Is Macron finally taking on the cult of Net Zero?
Hell hath no fury like an environmentalist scorned and Emmanuel Macron has felt a wave of green wrath since his…
Brit-bashing Eurovision entry finishes second bottom
It’s fair to say there was some controversy about the selection of Mae Muller as Britain’s entry to this year’s…
Varadkar red-faced after his boyfriend’s coronation messages leak
Oh dear. It was all meant to be going so well for British-Irish relations. Earlier this month both the Irish…
Erdogan faces runoff vote in the Turkish elections
Turkey is a strange kind of democracy. But nonetheless it is a democracy where an apparently invincible strongman can –…
Forget electric cars: America should invest in electric roads
As President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy begin to square off on a compromise debt ceiling bill, the…
Erdogan is unlikely to go quietly
The Turkish election is just hours away, and an opposition victory seems more likely than ever under president Erdogan’s rule.…
