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Friday, 27 January, 2023

Life & Arts
Geography is (almost) everything
Physical realities do more to shape world events than ideas
Tuesday, 24 January, 2023

Protectionism
The west will rue its embrace of protectionism
It doesn’t just split the democracies, it grants the Chinese-Russian view of the world as a zero-sum game
Friday, 20 January, 2023

Life & Arts
Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think
The pod has replaced the TV drama as a way of not reading and feeling good about it
Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

Populism
What the NHS and royal crises in the UK have in common
The British find it worryingly hard to think ill of non-commercial, non-political institutions
Friday, 30 December, 2022

Life & Arts
What to look for in a restaurant
A year of prolific dining out has left me with a shortlist of criteria
Tuesday, 27 December, 2022

Populism
Drama has cost populists more votes than incompetence
Demagogues can’t see that most people want a quiet life between elections
Friday, 16 December, 2022

Life & Arts
The God-fearing case for immigration
Religion in England is increasingly being propped up by immigrants and their descendants
Tuesday, 13 December, 2022

German politics
Rarity of the German coup plot is a triumph of democracy
Liberals should notice what doesn’t happen in politics, not just what does
Friday, 9 December, 2022

Life & Arts
Privilege doesn’t start with the super-rich
The upper middle class are not much less detached from the average earner than the one per cent
Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

Geopolitics
The year Europe’s innocent worldview fell apart
Having achieved a legalistic peace at home, the continent grew blind to conflict outside it
Friday, 2 December, 2022

Life & Arts
When politics wasn’t a team sport
Far from heralding the partisan age, Gore Vidal and William Buckley thought for themselves
Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Brexit
How Brexit made Britain a more European country
With a cheaper currency, higher taxes and messier politics, the UK has become continental
Friday, 25 November, 2022

Life & Arts
A lament for the age of apathy
The growth of political engagement doesn’t make for better governance or more interesting conversations
Tuesday, 22 November, 2022

FIFA World Cup
Qatar World Cup critics are unprepared for the rest of this century
The west will have to make far worse moral compromises as the centre of global power creeps elsewhere
Friday, 18 November, 2022

Life & Arts
How the humanities lost their prestige
The liberal arts have been tainted by a politicisation that can’t afflict science
Tuesday, 15 November, 2022

Populism
This was the year liberal democracy fought back
Populists have lost elections and autocrats have lost the aura of competence
Friday, 11 November, 2022

Life & Arts
The real reason to get off Twitter
It isn’t the abuse or the misinformation — it just reeks of low status
Friday, 4 November, 2022

Life & Arts
When the elite fights the elite
Attacks on north London from other rich people will backfire
Tuesday, 1 November, 2022

Populism
The public is not blameless in the crisis of democracy
Elites are scared to say that voters want dangerous or contradictory things for fear of being seen as snobs
Friday, 28 October, 2022

Life & Arts
Rishi Sunak puts the non-urban immigrant on the map
Minorities in non-obvious places don’t have their story told
Tuesday, 25 October, 2022

UK Government
Sunak will be a cleaner but not much better prime minister
His competence is overrated but his rectitude offers a reprieve for Britain’s despoiled democracy
Friday, 21 October, 2022

Life & Arts
Knowing what you want is the ultimate life skill
It is more foundational to happiness than either talent or hard work
Tuesday, 18 October, 2022

UK politics & policy
Labour’s progressive dream has died along with the Tories’ libertarian one
If he is elected UK premier, Keir Starmer won’t have the money to do very much
Friday, 14 October, 2022

Life & Arts
Why the business world is so bad at politics
From Elon Musk to woke CEOs, the commercial cast of mind doesn’t understand fanaticism
Tuesday, 11 October, 2022

Populism
Why Tories and Republicans can’t do populism properly
The liberal impulse in those countries stops the right building a paternalistic state