The trouble with Tavistock
Abuse is heaped on anyone who has questioned the trend toward carelessness in youth gender medicine
United kingdom
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
Monday
Meet the Tories battling for Boris Johnson’s job
One loves Silicon Valley, the other is a reformed Remainer. Who will win?
Monday
Slowly roasting in heatwave Britain
AC-free UK sweats it out like Prince Andrew
Friday
Americans should be proud of their Poet Laureates
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
Thursday
Why we’ll all miss Boris
He had more élan than any prime minister since Margaret Thatcher
Monday
Boris Johnson saved by his hollow party
Britain’s PM survives a no-confidence vote but the Conservatives are in trouble
Thursday
America’s ‘techwokery’ is infecting its allies
The US’s most insidious export is damaging its interests
Monday
What’s so ‘progressive’ about abortion?
America is stuck in the past, just not in the way pro-choicers think
Friday
Relive James Corden’s most valuable contributions to America
As the Brit announces his departure from The Late Late Show
Monday
Et in Arcadia ego
Interwar Oxford was less a world of dreaming spires and more one of constipated poets
Monday
Getting ready for Queen Camilla
The former mistress of Prince Charles has been given a blessing by the current queen
Friday
Is Boris Britain’s answer to Arnold?
There are some eerie parallels between the British PM and the Governator
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
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’
