Features
Lockdown: the inside story
Rishi Sunak on the fear messaging — and the questions that weren’t asked
Continental drift
When will the West start to deal with Africa on its own terms?
Edinburgh Notebook
When I was in my twenties, exactly 50 Edinburgh Festivals ago, Frank Dunlop directed the first professional production of Joseph…
Back on track
Might cryptocurrencies stage a return?
Ignorance is bliss
My holiday from the news
Censors’ charter
The hidden harms in the Online Safety Bill
Prima donna
Giorgia Meloni is favourite to be Italy’s next prime minister. What does she really believe?
Unfit for purpose
The General Medical Council has lost the trust of doctors
Hand luggage
The general flying advice this year, with airports resembling cattle markets and when you can’t be sure if you’re ever…
Watering
In the hot, dry summer of 1976, I was working as a gardening student at Arboretum Kalmthout in Belgium. The…
Don’t grass
A neighbourly feud is worse than a hosepipe ban
Send off
The joys of editing a newspaper letters page
Water isn’t working
Who’s to blame for the shortages?
Steeple chaser
The high life of a stonemason
Liberté, égalité, nudité
France’s new sexual politics
Construction works
It’s time for some old-fashioned Tory state-building
What a drag
Why are protestors so angry about a children’s story hour?
Going bananas
America is fast regressing
China’s baby bust
The demographic crisis might stall its rise
How to be PM
Ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
Beard oil
Every few months I take out a box of essential oils and carefully lay them out on my kitchen table,…
Network failure
Why must my mobile provider harass me all through my holiday?
Planet Liz
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
Putin’s grand illusions
Sanctions are working — whatever Russia says
The tiger who came for me
What we can learn from Jim Corbett’s big-cat tales
