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Saturday, 1 November, 2025

Life & Arts
The cosmopolitan conservative
Why the right are often better internationalists than the left
Wednesday, 29 October, 2025

Europe
Europe and the curse of geography
A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent
Saturday, 25 October, 2025

Life & Arts
The Temu theory of populism
Capitalism has set expectations of choice and convenience that no state can match
Wednesday, 22 October, 2025

Politics
Politics not tech makes the world go round
The future, like the recent past, will be shaped in the public realm
Saturday, 18 October, 2025

Life & Arts
Trump and the return of Great Man theory
The president vindicates an unfashionable view of how history works
Wednesday, 15 October, 2025

US foreign policy
Why the US could not shake off the Middle East
Lessons from a pivot to Asia that never comes
Saturday, 11 October, 2025

Life & Arts
Living in the grey zone
Navigating the 21st century requires a talent for paradox
Saturday, 4 October, 2025

Life & Arts
The war against the quite good
The bidding war for geniuses will antagonise those just below
Wednesday, 1 October, 2025

Conservative party UK
How the Tories might live again
It will take buyer’s remorse about Labour and fear of the economic consequences of Nigel Farage
Saturday, 27 September, 2025

Life & Arts
The young against the young
The real battle is within, not between, generations
Wednesday, 24 September, 2025

Geopolitics
Europe’s necessary appeasement of Donald Trump
Surrendering on trade is worth it to keep America engaged in the continent’s security
Saturday, 20 September, 2025

Life & Arts
A lot of learning is a dangerous thing
How university expansion split western societies
Wednesday, 17 September, 2025

Populism
Won’t the British right stand up for sovereignty?
A hatred of interference in national affairs disappears when American conservatives are doing it
Saturday, 13 September, 2025

Life & Arts
The rise of the western refugee
It might soon be rich-world citizens who flee political chaos
Wednesday, 10 September, 2025

Populism
Farage’s self-defeating embrace of Trump
There is nothing to gain for the Reform UK leader, so why does he do it?
Saturday, 6 September, 2025

Life & Arts
The audacity of mope
Why pessimism persists in an improving world
Wednesday, 3 September, 2025

Labour party UK
The historical necessity of Starmer’s failure
If another government disappoints, voters might accept that painful reform of the state is needed
Saturday, 30 August, 2025

Life & Arts
Manchester United: lessons from the fall
The club shows the value of ‘satisficing’ rather than optimising
Wednesday, 27 August, 2025

Populism
Winning elections is the only curb against strongmen
Liberals focus too much on constitutions and too little on politics
Saturday, 23 August, 2025

Life & Arts
How English costs the English
The disadvantages of having the world’s language
Wednesday, 20 August, 2025

US foreign policy
Trump’s ambiguity is the worst of all worlds
He supports Europe enough to make it complacent but not enough to make it safe
Saturday, 16 August, 2025

Life & Arts
Stop talking about AI
A discourse on the discourse
Wednesday, 13 August, 2025

Global Economy
Why bad ideas are always with us
Tariffs, Nimbyism, high debt — the victims of these things don’t even know what they’re losing
Saturday, 9 August, 2025

Television
Don’t mourn the golden age of TV
It created a generation of bores
Wednesday, 6 August, 2025

Donald Trump
The high summer of Donald Trump
In all likelihood, it is downhill for the US president from here

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