31 Aug 2026 - 1:01am

Britain has a leadership fetish Great men are ruled by animal instincts

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

15.07

Do London’s power outages spell disaster? West End networks are creaking

Timandra Harkness

13.10

How powerful is Liz Truss? The PM needs to be feared and loved

Terry Eagleton

28.05

The Anti-Christ now rules us all The age of progress has turned everything into machines and money

Paul Kingsnorth

19.04

Vladislav Surkov leaves the stage Putin's puppet master was just another marionette

Maximilian Hess

11.12

Why satire gave up on politics Power is no longer wielded by our hapless politicians

Dorian Lynskey

29.10

Lord of the Rings is better than Dune Tolkien understood the corrupting effect of power

Peter Franklin

04.03

The woke battle for cultural imperialism The use of language to impose a worldview can easily become violent

Mary Harrington

03.09

A portrait of power, warts and all A series of novels set in Cromwell's England shows that taking control is easy enough — but keeping it is much harder

James Kirkup

03.09

What Eton taught me about power The real genius of the set-up is how it co-opts potential rebels

Sam Leith