Empire loyalist
John Buchan’s labours not only served the public good: they provided the raw material and characters for his thrillers
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Deep waters
David Laws demolishes a conspiracy theory about the death of Lord Kitchener and does it very classily indeed
Brexit bolters
Where are Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and George Osborne? It was as if they couldn’t wait to leave Parliament, having got what they could out of the system, with no
Act of assent
Was Her Majesty waiting behind the scenes in Westminster, ready to provide her Royal Assent to the EU Withdrawal Act? The reality is more mundane
A future foretold
The long-awaited sequel to A Very British Coup
Dog days
'If every writer who disliked what other contributors wrote decided to withdraw their work, there would be no papers, no magazines, perhaps no telly'
Debates that never die
‘The Brexit shambles could have been largely avoided if there had been from June 2016 a government which — unlike Theresa May’s — was 100 per committed to taking Britain out of