Keir Starmer’s fortunes are about to change
Those of us who voted Labour with pleasure on 4 July could never have imagined the new government’s first 100…
Canada’s DEI doctors
Canada, like other countries, has had a long-standing problem with doctor shortages. Rural and northern communities struggle to find doctors…
How Marseille became France’s Narcoville
France’s Interior Minister is the tough-talking Bruno Retailleau. In his inaugural declaration a fortnight ago, he hammered out his three…
Starmer needs to get serious about China
In the coming days, Foreign Secretary David Lammy will visit China and Chancellor Rachel Reeves is eyeing up a visit…
Why am I popular on TikTok?
The American essayist Fredric Jameson died recently. One of his most famous quips (sometimes wrongly attributed to me) holds today…
The trouble with protest mask chic
We in Britain have become used to the hallmarks of anti-Israeli protests. There are the slogans decrying ‘genocide’. There are…
Thousands of insects sacrificed by trans activists
This is a bizarre story. Apparently – allegedly – or perhaps we should say, ‘as far as the internet is…
Past and present in Prague
The American author William Faulkner said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ A recent visit to Prague…
Labor’s shame
As this magazine has pointed out, if you take any single political or cultural issue on its own merits in…
Let freedom ring out (and go through to voicemail)
Our differences are only skin-deep - for a reason
Grave and terrible elements
There’s something horrifying about Monsters, the Netflix streamer about the Menendez brothers who, back in 1989, murdered their mother and…
Aussie life
‘When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around,’ wrote Mark Twain,…
Convict life
In a country that loves its anti-heroes as much as it loves a pub yarn, we’re faced with an important…
Yvette Cooper wants to lock up your sons
In his independent review of the Prevent programme last year, Sir William Shawcross warned that something had gone very wrong…
Dear Mary: how can I stop guests waking too early?
Q. I meet a very old and dear friend for lunch on a regular basis. We meet at a lovely…
