In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil from which nothing ...
The future of the Inflation Reduction Act hangs in the balance following the inauguration of Donald Trump.
“Be a selfish bastard” counts among the entrepreneur’s maxims.
The news from Davos yesterday was that Rachel Reeves had been persuaded to “relax non-dom rules amid millionaires’ exodus” ( Times ). The Chancellor, it was reported, was planning to water down Labour ...
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
From lagging defence spending to choosing Peter Mandelson as ambassador, the UK government is out of step with Maga.
All it went to show is how so many politicians have failed to engage in the detail of the debate on how best to care for ...
The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war  – and why the peace process is far from over.
In January 2009, as Gordon Brown’s government argued over whether to build a third runway at Heathrow, the senior civil ...
The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.