Manchester Square

It has been a year of doubts and uncertainties: fluctuating infection and death rates, empty promises and political false starts, civil unrest, social injustice, abject diplomacy

“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”

"For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again"

"The purpose of this magazine, and the sign of its intelligence, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously"

"The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant"

'The issues are tricky: transgender people’s understandable desire to pursue happiness as members of the opposite sex can impinge on people born that way'