What Elon gets wrong about England
When work follows you everywhere, how do you switch off? You can, if you wish, hide from your emails by spending £500 a night on a remote luxury retreat for…
Will the cinema god forgive Nolan?
I held off on seeing The Odyssey. I wasn’t sure why. Maybe I was flinching from the thunder of publicity — crammed with promises of spectacle, the unspeakable and the…
How Andy Burnham mogged Britain
Comrade, this long march is one hell of a slog. I speak of Andy Burnham’s social-media campaign, a relentless process of ingratiation with the credulous commenters of TikTok. A week…
The Left’s war on anti-crime tech
Xavier Bautista grew up in the largely working-class black and Latino community of The Port in Cambridge, Mass. During his life, Xavier watched as an influx of Harvard and MIT…
How Cuban politics infiltrated America
Last week, the US Department of State issued a 100-page report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism”. In the days since, many in the press have interpreted the…
The political problem with cousin marriage
On 1 July, the Swedish government formally outlawed first-cousin marriage, presenting the ban not simply as a measure to reduce inherited disorders but as protection against coercion, honor-based oppression and…
Charli xcx’s death drive
Charli xcx is having a death summer. Music, Fashion, Film — her first proper album since 2024’s season-defining Brat, and her second if you include her soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s…
Trump’s tariff addiction
In the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the father of the bride claims that Windex, a US glass cleaning product, can cure all known medical conditions. I was…
The poet who invented Burnham’s North
On Monday we said hello to Britain’s first born-and-bred Northern prime minister since Harold Wilson. It would be fair to say that Andy Burnham has not been shy in heralding…
Why we can’t outrun the Neanderthals
To become a father is to be plunged into a world of stories. Dragons, tigers, talking bears — some of them half-remembered, from when they were read to me —…