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Turning the tide
How Britain can stem the stream of illegal arrivals
A pretty kettle of fish
The other day a friend asked me what a lascar was. Fair enough: it’s not a word you come across…
Power struggle
The troubling truth about Britain’s nuclear deal with China
The alpha migrants
They’re bright, brave – and could help solve our labour crisis
The man who wasn’t there
Craig Brown describes his various encounters with the MP who notoriously faked his own death in 1974
The jab age
Party time depends on following the party line
Diary
You always remember when a prime minister calls you to ask you to take on a new role, and you…
Cricket notebook
Although it was a miracle that he survived until a few weeks before his 95th birthday, the death of John…
Dishing the dirt
The case against organic food
A dangerous madness
The QAnon conspiracy theory may be absurd, but it can’t be ignored. It has already led to significant acts of violence, says Damian Thompson
Game changer
The uncomfortable truth about the Nazis and the Olympics
Diary
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant was officially launched last week, with a splashy press call in the Raphael Court of…
Rhodes to redemption
Not since September 1642, when a mob of Parliamentary soldiers opened fire on the sculpture of the Virgin Mary carved…
Football’s never coming home
I failed a moral test last weekend. A friend offered me a free ticket to the Euro 2020 final and…
Cuba libre
Havana There is an astonishing patience in the Cuban people, born of endless waiting. When a store has, say, chicken,…
Big Boris is watching
Has Covid killed the PM’s liberalism?
President Xi’s panopticon
Tom Miller describes how Xinjiang became a laboratory for China’s mass surveillance system – built with the help of US tech companies
Immigration figures don’t add up
Journalists filing to deadline are apt to dig only so deep when googling for statistics, which in themselves are sometimes…
Broadmoor tales
True crime is having a moment: every day there’s a new documentary, book, podcast, or blockbuster film announced, detailing the…
Dishing the dirt
Even by James Ellroy’s standards, the narrator of his latest novel is not a man much given to the quiet…
Diary
It turns out that if there’s one thing more expensive than making theatre, it’s not making it. Empty buildings haemorrhage…
The lost legacy
Merkel is leaving the EU in chaos
A light crack of the whip
Orgies! Gangsters! Drugs! Spies! Scandals! This biography promises much but I’m not sure it actually delivers, or not in any…
Monster bunch
I hated reading this book. Not only was it objectively upsetting, as any book describing monkey vivisection would be (I…
Why we don’t say it
The official review into the Manchester Arena bombing was published this week. Four years after 22 mainly young people were…
