13 Jan 2021 - 12:01am

The Mafia is thriving in lockdown Chaos has always been an opportunity for organised crime — as Britain could soon find out

Tobias Jones

04.01

What did the Habsburgs do for us? Well, rather a lot actually, as two recent books show

Alexander Faludy

10.11

Europe’s deplorables have outwitted Brussels Hungary and Poland have forced the EU to make a Faustian pact to ensure its future

Wessie du Toit

10.09

Has Boris forgotten our fishing history? The sea is woven deep into the culture of the British Isles. Politicians ignore it at their peril

Mary Harrington

02.09

The last gasps of a European empire An unfinished masterpiece set in imperial Vienna offers our MPs historical parallels — but no easy answers

Matthew Sweet

05.08

Let them eat prawn cocktail crisps Boris Johnson used to scoff at the puritans who wanted to curb our God-given appetites. Now he's become one of them

Diane Purkiss

06.07

When will Germany get off its knees? Just when the country needs to show resolve, Merkel is being startlingly naive

Aris Roussinos

21.04

Can Emmanuel Macron reinvent himself? The French President's willingness to wrestle intellectually with the Covid crisis sets him apart

John Lichfield

20.04

The return of every man for himself The coronavirus pandemic shows how multilateralism has weakened national resilience

James Barr

27.01

The roots of identitarian liberalism   Joseph Roth understood the dangers of identity politics long before the term was invented

John Gray

22.01

Everything you know about Europe is wrong British liberals have created a Europe of their imagination, but how closely does it resemble reality?

Ed West

02.01

Where will Boris Johnson lead us? Come 2029, the former United Kingdom will be consumed by a new dilemma

James Kirkup