• February 14 2026
  Life & Arts

  Liberals should mourn the passing world

  Why apologise for what was the most successful international order in history?

  
• February 11 2026
  Keir Starmer

  Britain should pray that Starmer survives

  The country did not and would not vote for the Labour left

  
• February 7 2026
  Life & Arts

  Mandelson and the two elites

  What the public sees as a ruling class is divided against itself

  
• February 4 2026
  UK politics

  Britain can’t ignore Europe and China at the same time

  Tory criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s foreign policy shows the party is unserious

  
• January 31 2026
  Film

  The Hamnet wars

  The cynics are wrong about a film that will outlast our era

  
• January 28 2026
  Donald Trump

  Why Taco is a problem for Europe

  The continent needs a sense of crisis in order to change, and Donald Trump keeps it just short of that

  
• January 24 2026
  Life & Arts

  A liberal in illiberal times

  Reflections on a decade that was less traumatic than it promised to be

  
• January 21 2026
  US foreign policy

  Always beware a declining superpower

  Even under normal leadership, a status-anxious US would be lashing out

  
• January 17 2026
  Life & Arts

  The right will want a United States of Europe

  Conservatives will come to see a unified continent as the only defence against America and China

  
• January 14 2026
  UK politics

  How Nigel Farage gets away with it

  His two great liabilities, Brexit and Donald Trump, are unmentionable in British politics

  
• January 10 2026
  Life & Arts

  The myth of ‘mindset’

  As a key to success, mentality gets too much attention and talent too little

  
• January 7 2026
  US politics & policy

  How Trump became just another Republican president

  His enthusiasm for big business and foreign intervention is more Reaganite than populist

  
• December 20 2025
  Life & Arts

  The case for denial

  In a darkening world, burying one’s head in the sand is a rational strategy

  
• December 17 2025
  Geopolitics

  When business and democracy don’t mix

  Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins

  
• December 13 2025
  Life & Arts

  The other kind of migrant

  Those who move within a country have an under-scrutinised effect on it

  
• December 10 2025
  Geopolitics

  The clash within civilisations

  The important conflicts today take place inside cultural-religious blocs, not between them

  
• December 6 2025
  Life & Arts

  Maga’s strange rage against Europe

  The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it

  
• December 3 2025
  Politics

  The rise of unpopular populism

  On birth rates, the lockdown and above all Brexit, the right is out of touch with the public

  
• November 29 2025
  Life & Arts

  The coup de grâce for woke

  The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ a few years ago

  
• November 22 2025
  Life & Arts

  The Anglo-Australian drift

  Two increasingly different countries are contesting the Ashes

  
• November 19 2025
  Labour Party UK

  The Labour government will deteriorate from here

  Starmer and Reeves are unfit and their likeliest usurpers are worse

  
• November 8 2025
  Life & Arts

  The tragedy of specialisation

  A lack of intrepid amateurs might explain stagnant societies

  
• November 5 2025
  Politics

  Mamdani and the new challenge for nation states

  The metropolis and the heartland provoke each other into extremes, as the New York mayoral race shows

  
• November 1 2025
  Life & Arts

  The cosmopolitan conservative

  Why the right are often better internationalists than the left

  
• October 29 2025
  Europe

  Europe and the curse of geography

  A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent