10/11/2019 - 8:16am

The empty lives of Extinction Rebellion fanatics Bored, white elites flock to XR in search of meaning and purpose — and something to complain about

Douglas Murray

11.10

How Tony Blair destroyed the centre ground The former PM talks a lot about reasonableness; but his three year campaign against Brexit compromise is anything but

Freddie Sayers

11.10

The gruesome fate of gifted women A new film about Judy Garland perpetuates a misogynistic myth — only men can fully inhabit genius

Tanya Gold

11.10

Why is Stella Creasy shutting down debate? One person’s harassment is, it would appear, another person’s legitimate crusade

Paul Embery

10.10

Macron’s Brexit plan The French president wants the UK out of the EU, but he also wants a deal. Can he use his position as Europe's kingmaker to get one?

John Lichfield

10.10

What did the ancient Mesopotamians ever do for us? From depression cures to egotistical Trumpian kings and angry customer complaints, we can still relate to the lives of people living four millennia ago

Moudhy Al-Rashid

10.10

Was John Lennon right about love? The former Beatle sang about a universal, wave-your-lighter-in-the-air harmony

Giles Fraser

09.10

Will Brexit leave us dining on rat poo? It is becoming increasingly difficult to tease out the realistic EU stories from the crazy

Tom Chivers

09.10

What if Germany’s economy toppled? Germany has an unusually big manufacturing sector, but in a world of technological change that leaves the country vulnerable to disruption

Peter Franklin

09.10

How motherhood put an end to my liberalism Having a child is neither an obstacle nor a pastel-coloured ideal of domestic bliss, but something far messier

Mary Harrington

08.10

All the world’s a stage for the trans ultras Theatreland's bible has caved into activists's demands and cancelled articles about gender-neutral loos

Stephen Pollard

08.10

Could Boris save his party? The PM has the ambition to put the country he helped fracture back together again

Tanya Gold