12/25/2019 - 12:10am

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics The stars of the EU flag represent the coming together of nations — but one can't help but notice the shape that they form.

Peter Franklin

14.10

Alexander Hamilton would have a plan for Brexit The US Founding Father should be our guide to embracing a Global Britain

Michael O’Sullivan

02.08

The 10 brains behind Dominic Cummings From Bismarck to Eliot – the mavericks who inspire the PM's guru

Peter Franklin

28.06

TV’s demeaning political banter

Douglas Murray

25.06

The three myths about free markets

Jesse Norman

24.06

What hope for America’s Deplorables? An unsettling look at the calamity of poverty in the US

Justin Webb

06.06

What’s the point of political fiction? Novels rarely make laws – but they enlarge our political vocabulary

Sam Leith

21.05

A quack cure for the world’s ills Jared Diamond's 12-step guide to how countries such as Chile deal with crisis is bad medicine

Steven Poole

11.04

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics

Peter Franklin

20.03

Can bribery fix democracy?

Peter Kellner

09.02

What are Julian Assange’s supporters really fighting for? Many people have decided to fashion their ethical choices to fit their pre-existing prejudices

Douglas Murray

15.11

Why we should fear technophobia

Tom Chivers