The Week
Letters
Zero sense Sir: Ross Clark’s article (‘Hot air’, 12 November) neatly sums up some of the fallacies of the net…
Austerity is back
It’s the Chancellor who will deliver next week’s Autumn Statement, but every-one knows it will have been ghost-written by Rishi…
Letters
Running the asylum Sir: The interview with Robert Buckland must be the most depressing article I have read for a…
Portrait of the week
Home Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet as minister without portfolio following publication of texts he had sent (annoyed…
Diary
Rio de Janeiro When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…
Portrait of the week
Home Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, spoke in the Commons of an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ by migrants in…
Beware Beijing
Olaf Scholz will be in Beijing this weekend, making the first visit of a western leader to China since the…
Diary
After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…
Barometer
Prime numbers At 42, Rishi Sunak is Britain’s youngest PM since Lord Liverpool took office the day after his 42nd…
A dog’s life
Nine exceedingly passive ‘activists’ glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen factory in Germany and complained about being humiliated,…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…
Letters
Sculpting a solution Sir: Noel Malcolm’s article ‘Relief fund’ (22 October) rightly suggests that legislators should consider the issue of…
A milder winter
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, German protesters lined the streets holding placards saying ‘Better a cold shower than Putin’s…
Portrait of the week
Home Liz Truss said in a BBC interview as Prime Minister that she wanted to ‘say sorry for the mistakes…
Diary
It’s been a great week for the powerful fantasies of fiction (see more below), but over the weekend no novel…
Truss and the art of rhetoric
Liz Truss was spot-on in arguing that the only way in which a state can flourish is by combining low…
Letters
Paying the price Sir: Lionel Shriver’s piece about university standards rang true to me (‘University is supposed to be hard’,…
