The Week
Net moderate
The old carmakers were slow to realise the potential of electric cars and didn’t innovate. So Elon Musk, an internet…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, proposed reaching net zero in 2050 ‘in a better, more proportionate way’ such as by…
Diary
With the boiling, broiling summer here in Provence now at an end, it’s time to start thinking about rehearsing for…
Barometer
Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…
Argue away
Excited crowds of youth, encouraged by adults who should know better, take the view that opinions with which they disagree…
Letters
Whose victory? Sir: Politicians are often accused of engaging in doublespeak, and I fear in the case of Boris Johnson’s…
Biden time
As Napoleon is reputed to have said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. So why are…
Barometer
Get out of jail There were 8 prison escapes in the year to March. All were recaptured within a month.…
Councils of despair
Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…
Taxing times
No. 10 quickly asserted that the meltdown at National Air Traffic Services was a technical issue rather than a cyber…
Diary
There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse.…
