Is Boris Britain’s answer to Arnold?
There are some eerie parallels between the British PM and the Governator
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Friday
Sunday
Antony Blinken’s soundtrack to failure
Biden’s secretary of state has released his Spotify playlist and its invitations to weakness are many
Friday
What’s wrong with Queen Elizabeth?
Something might well be wrong
Monday
In defense of the English original sandwich
Yank yearns for ye olde English sandwich
Why we should venerate Evelyn Waugh
Waugh was unquestionably among the greatest novelists of the 20th century
Scotland by sleeper
Wanting to avoid the airport, I took a late-evening, six-and-a-half-hour train from Edinburgh to Bristol
Sunday
Why European criticism of the US Afghanistan pullout is so refreshing
If the Europeans want to check our power — rather than just complain about it — they need to show that they can
The art of politics: what ministers hang on their walls
The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall
Tuesday
The Isles of Scilly, a botanist’s paradise
‘You can get away from everything,’ said Harold Wilson of the Isles of Scilly, ‘not only in distance but also in time’
Monday
Football is more than a religion to the English
The English game has come back to the English in modern, living form
Thursday
Carrie and Jill: the real summit
The remainder of the G7 summit is effortlessly overshadowed by the leaders’ spouses
Thursday
Bath time
If you have lived in Bath since the beginning of the pandemic you might not have noticed the changes so viscerally
Sunday
Should we blame America?
It’s hard for Europeans to argue that ‘culture wars’ and ‘identity politics’ are American imports
Monday
Bristol is Britain’s Portland
Rioters dressed in black bloc as they set dumpsters on fire to block streets
Thursday
The spies who cancel us
The British security establishment thinks ‘whiteness is the problem’
Wednesday
Biden should embrace Britain’s new Indo-Pacific strategy
The need to invigorate and defend a community of free nations in the Indo-Pacific is increasingly evident
Monday
Beef Wellington: a winter luxury that’s worth the effort
There is no conclusive proof that this dish was created in honor of the first Duke of Wellington
Sunday
What my father-in-law’s death taught me about COVID
You don’t get points for being defiant towards COVID-19: it really doesn’t care
Tuesday
Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon
The public does not buy into the notion that there is ‘structural’ racism in the UK. There isn’t
Monday
Mart and marketing
Martin Amis has written another autobiography — sort of
