01/10/2020 - 12:06am

Harry and Meghan’s embarrassing predicament The world is bound to lose interest once the Sussexes step back from the Royal Family

Douglas Murray

10.01

What can we expect from 2020 politics? Donald Trump will win, national populism will continue apace and the Green movement will grow

Matthew Goodwin

10.01

When female undergrads were ‘semi-demented spinsters’ A century ago the first women graduated from Oxford — and another obstacle to female emancipation fell

Francesca Wade

10.01

Why Schitt’s Creek is a parable for the good life If you lost everything you ever valued, how would you find meaning?

Libby Emmons

09.01

Don’t expect Jeremy Corbyn to go quietly Labour is going to find it impossible to escape the shadow of its humiliated leader

Stephen Pollard

09.01

Freud would know why we’re all workaholics Our culture of overwork is a means of running away from the inevitable descent into nothingness

Giles Fraser

09.01

Like the 1920s, the 2020s will be an age of anxiety Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future

Richard Overy

09.01

The blight of farm suicides It's badly paid, lonely, bureaucratic and the most dangerous job in Britain

John Lewis-Stempel

09.01

John Clare, poet of the Somewheres The politics of the Peasant Poet feel unexpectedly fresh and increasingly urgent today

Mary Harrington

08.01

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

08.01

Russia’s brief encounter with the sexual revolution Long before the swinging Sixties, the USSR initiated free love, gay rights and legal abortion. The results were unexpected...

Daniel Kalder

08.01

Lisa Nandy can’t have her cake and eat it The Labour leadership candidate advocates communitarian politics and universalist obligations. That doesn't add up.

David Goodhart