Features
The attack on meritocracy
Identity now trumps talent
Keep cool
How the Tories should respond to Labour’s attack ads
Soldiering on
A Brit’s life on Ukraine’s front line
Death bed
I’ve built my own coffin
Troubled waters
Meloni’s plan to ‘stop the boats’
Shadow play
The covert war between Iran and Israel
What I learned from Nigel Lawson
His practical radicalism brought permanent change
The lost shepherds
Can Justin Welby and Pope Francis keep their flocks?
Mental blocks
The madness of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood measures
‘Navalny is ready to fight and win’
The Russian rebel’s chief of staff on standing up to Putin
Fortunes of war
In Ukraine, patriotism has become profitable
From the ashes
The surprising beauty of Mass in a burnt-out church
Macron vs the masses
Can he face them down?
Sleeper trains
It’s a fabulous combination: travelling by train and sleeping. And the good news is that the concept of sleeper trains…
Letter from down under
The mob lunged towards me, screeching and grabbing, and I knew that if I fell I would never get up.…
‘My country is a proxy of the Russian state’
Georgia’s exiled former defence minister on Putin, poisonings and EU membership
Not safe for work
Getting a job after 50 is easier said than done
Local heroes
The joy of an old man pub
Downtowns
The death of the American city
Island myths
The new Attenborough series needs challenging
The ghost children
The pupils who never came back after lockdown
A cut above
The fine art of snubbing
